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Elevate engagement with reliable MMS messaging

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Enhance conversations and drive conversions with rich media

MMS elevates the customer experience to drive growth. Enable transactional deliveries, GIF-marketing, contact sharing, and group chat. With Twilio’s developer-friendly APIs and scalability, MMS is just a few lines of code away.

APIs

Developer friendly APIs proven to deliver at scale

Programmable messaging API connecting to customers through preferred channel

Programmable Messaging API

Send transactional MMS, SMS, and WhatsApp messages with a single API.

  • Reach 180+ countries reliably with localized senders, compliance tools, and global guidelines.

  • Manage deliverability, compliance, replies, and more with Twilio’s programmable software.

  • Optimize delivery with automatic SMS fallback and image resizing if a message isn’t deliverable via MMS.

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Conversations API

Drive two-way engagement with cross-channel messaging for MMS and more using a single API.

  • Enable commerce and support on MMS, SMS, Facebook Messenger, Google’s Business Messages, chat, and WhatsApp.

  • Get to market faster with quick-starts, sample apps, and SDKs.

  • Manage participants, archive messages, and more.

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Use cases

Grow relationships at scale

Promotions

Differentiate your brand and drive sales with a unique mix of images, emojis, videos and more with the Programmable Messaging API.

Conversational commerce

Enable rich media messaging threads between client-facing employees and customers via preferred channels with the Conversations API.

Customer care

Enhance support capabilities and workflows by sending and receiving MMS images and videos, all with the Conversations API.

Notifications

Send personalized rich media alerts, reminders, delivery notifications, and more with the Programmable Messaging API.

Developer resources

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Send a Message with an Image URL 

// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);

client.messages
  .create({
     body: 'This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?',
     from: '+15017122661',
     mediaUrl: ['https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg'],
     to: '+15558675310'
   })
  .then(message => console.log(message.sid));
# Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/python/install
import os
from twilio.rest import Client


# Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
# and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
account_sid = os.environ['TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID']
auth_token = os.environ['TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN']
client = Client(account_sid, auth_token)

message = client.messages \\
    .create(
         body='This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?',
         from_='+15017122661',
         media_url=['https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg'],
         to='+15558675310'
     )

print(message.sid)
// Install the C# / .NET helper library from twilio.com/docs/csharp/install

using System;
using System.Linq;
using Twilio;
using Twilio.Rest.Api.V2010.Account;


class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
        // and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
        string accountSid = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID");
        string authToken = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN");

        TwilioClient.Init(accountSid, authToken);

        var mediaUrl = new [] {
            new Uri("https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg")
        }.ToList();

        var message = MessageResource.Create(
            body: "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?",
            from: new Twilio.Types.PhoneNumber("+15017122661"),
            mediaUrl: mediaUrl,
            to: new Twilio.Types.PhoneNumber("+15558675310")
        );

        Console.WriteLine(message.Sid);
    }
}

// Install the Java helper library from twilio.com/docs/java/install

import com.twilio.Twilio;
import com.twilio.rest.api.v2010.account.Message;
import com.twilio.type.PhoneNumber;

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Example {
    // Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
    // and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
    public static final String ACCOUNT_SID = System.getenv("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID");
    public static final String AUTH_TOKEN = System.getenv("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Twilio.init(ACCOUNT_SID, AUTH_TOKEN);
        Message message = Message.creator(
                new com.twilio.type.PhoneNumber("+15558675310"),
                new com.twilio.type.PhoneNumber("+15017122661"),
                "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?")
            .setMediaUrl(
                Arrays.asList(URI.create("https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg")))
            .create();

        System.out.println(message.getSid());
    }
}
<?php

// Update the path below to your autoload.php,
// see https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md
require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

use Twilio\\Rest\\Client;

// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
\$sid = getenv("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID");
\$token = getenv("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN");
\$twilio = new Client(\$sid, \$token);

\$message = \$twilio->messages
                  ->create("+15558675310", // to
                           [
                               "body" => "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?",
                               "from" => "+15017122661",
                               "mediaUrl" => ["https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg"]
                           ]
                  );

print(\$message->sid);
# Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/ruby/install
require 'rubygems'
require 'twilio-ruby'

# Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
# and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
account_sid = ENV['TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID']
auth_token = ENV['TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN']
@client = Twilio::REST::Client.new(account_sid, auth_token)

message = @client.messages
  .create(
     body: 'This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?',
     from: '+15017122661',
     media_url: ['https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg'],
     to: '+15558675310'
   )

puts message.sid

# Install the twilio-cli from https://twil.io/cli

twilio api:core:messages:create \\
    --body "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?" \\
    --from +15017122661 \\
    --media-url https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg \\
    --to +15558675310

curl -X POST "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/\$TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json" \\
--data-urlencode "Body=This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs?" \\
--data-urlencode "From=+15017122661" \\
--data-urlencode "MediaUrl=https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2899/14341091933_1e92e62d12_b.jpg" \\
--data-urlencode "To=+15558675310" \\
-u \$TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID:\$TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN

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