Build A Group Text Messaging Service for friends and family projects

Don’t like Facebook? Or friends doesn’t use Facebook or WhatsApp? 

No worries, use Group Text messages.

  Yes, everyone with a mobile phone has an SMS app because your phone comes with an SMS app. You’re Group SMS app ready for group messaging.

The complete implementation is managed using Twilio Console, no developer skills required. After opening an account with Twilio, you would buy a phone number for the group to use. Then you copy and paste code into a new Twilio Function. After the Function is created, create a Messaging Service and a Notify service. And finally, create Sync service to manage the member list. Then your ready for group messaging.

The blog, How To: Set Up SMS Broadcasts in Five Minutes, says, “SMS messages are opened 98% of the time within minutes of being received. When you need to reach your constituents quickly and consistently, there’s no better medium than SMS.”

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