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title: _Twilio_
description: >-
  **Twilio** is a service for sending and receiving text messages
  programmatically. In the channel's material, a Twilio SMS service is the entry
  point of the **Hermes** reading-companion app: it receives the photo of a book
  page that a reader texts in[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177].
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# \_Twilio\_

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## Definition

**Twilio** is a service for sending and receiving text messages programmatically. In the channel's material, a Twilio SMS service is the entry point of the **Hermes** reading-companion app: it receives the photo of a book page that a reader texts in[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177].

In the Hermes build — an SMS reading companion assembled in under an hour — **Twilio** is the service that handles the text-message side of the app[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177]. A **Twilio SMS service** receives the photo the reader texts in, which is the entry point for the whole flow: Twilio sends and receives text messages programmatically, so the app can take a photo of a book page as input without building any phone infrastructure itself[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177].Twilio is one layer in a pipeline of specialists, each doing a single job:- **Twilio** — receives the texted-in photo[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177].- **GPT-4** — handles image-to-text, since it is multimodal and strong at OCR[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@211].- **o1 preview** — analyzes the transcription for interpretation[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@234].- **o1 mini** — writes the code[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@268].Twilio is the only non-AI component in that list: it is plumbing for messaging, letting the AI models focus on what they are each best at.- **Twilio** is the SMS layer of the Hermes app — it sends and receives text messages programmatically[^4ef67c54-9505-5bc4-a565-9579a83f2827@177].- It receives the photo a reader texts in, kicking off the rest of the pipeline.- It sits alongside AI models that each own one step: OCR, interpretation, and coding.