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Is there a way to use twilio to send a message to a group thread? I don't want each recipient to have a separate thread with the twilio number sending the message.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jeff Ames
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  • Hey Jeff, I'm not quite sure what you mean here. SMS messages don't have the concept of a group thread. What is the result you are looking for here? – philnash Jan 16 '15 at 17:59
  • Hey Phil, it would be as if I sent a group message from my phone. Everyone who received the message could see the other numbers in the group. If anyone responded everyone would receive the text message. – Jeff Ames Jan 16 '15 at 19:14
  • Hey Jeff, I actually had no idea this worked on phones. My guess is that it requires a group of the same phones/OSes talking to each other to allow group SMSing to work. On that note, I don't believe Twilio can make that happen as you describe. One thing you could do is to set up one number that everyone in a group could message that would broadcast to the rest of the group. – philnash Jan 19 '15 at 14:28
  • Group messaging is a fairly common thing which works cross Oses too (atleast works between iOS and android). Ever found a workaround for this? – zengr Sep 19 '15 at 18:16

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Ricky from Twilio here.

You can't set it up as you described but we do have a blog post that outlines how to build a group messaging app with Meteor and MongoDB. This may get you, or anyone else who stumbles on this question, close.

rickyrobinett
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