Twilio Q4 revenue surges 65% on back of SMS revival
Political candidates in America, prevented by coronavirus from knocking on doors, texted instead. And political traffic contributed $22.7 million to the revenue of SMS cloud platform Twilio. New York City said in late May it was using Twilio to power its contact tracing initiative. Lots of businesses were contributors, too. Using its Twilio Flex programmable platform, the company built a coronavirus contact center so that patients and their known contacts could be called, messaged and emailed. And as a result of all this, Twilio now reports its fourth-quarter revenue soared 65% from the f...
Source: lightreading.com