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  **Twilio** — a service for sending and receiving text messages
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  **Twilio** — a service for sending and receiving text messages
  programmatically, used here as the SMS backbone of the app
  [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176].
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# \*\*Twilio\*\* — a service for sending and receiving text messages programmatically, used here as the SMS backbone of the app \[^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176]

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/twilio-a-service-for-sending-and-receiving-text-mes-de237c1e97aa

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Twilio** — a service for sending and receiving text messages programmatically, used here as the SMS backbone of the app [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176].

**Twilio** is a service for sending and receiving text messages programmatically [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176]. In the captured material it serves as the **SMS backbone of the app** — the plumbing that lets an application text users automatically rather than through a phone by hand.While building the reading companion **Hermes** in under an hour with **Cursor** and OpenAI's o1 models, the builder wired up webhook plumbing and connected services like Twilio so the finished app could send and receive messages on its own [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176]. It's one of the off-the-shelf pieces that makes a personal AI app like this doable *even without real coding experience*.- **Twilio** sends and receives text messages programmatically [^01a0f15b-0757-72c4-9201-53d55ca674c7@176].- It functions as the **SMS backbone** of the app built in the video.- It pairs with webhook plumbing during the build of **Hermes**.