Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO

Re:Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO by dsincl12 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:20PM (#23633366)

I've had the exact opposite experience.

I don't know how many 200 OK I've received but the message was never delivered (and soooo many times during vital demos). I had several support cases with them and they simply ignored me. My product is built around SMS so I could have been easy money for them if it actually worked reliably.

I ditched them for Twilio, never had any issues since then. A couple of months later someone from sales at MessageBird reached out to me on LinkedIn and asked if I wanted to try their service. Spilled my guts to him and he wasn't surprised...

How certain are you that your messages are delivered? When I started digging, it was scary how often it failed successfully.

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Re:Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO by pg4 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:01PM (#23634365)

Was it not a matter of leaving out a country code or something? I was getting 200 OKs and not receiving messages, until I realized that my number without a +1 in front is a valid Peruvian number.

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Re:Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO by dsincl12 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:37PM (#23634653)

Nope, unfortunately not. Really liked their API so it's sad I had to jump ship.

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Re:Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO by robertvis on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:37PM (#23646031)

This sounds like a terrible experience. Can you email me so we can look into it?

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