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How to Send an SMS in 30 Seconds with Golang

What's this blog post about?

You can send an SMS using the Twilio Go Helper Library in Golang. To do so, you need to first set up your environment with your Twilio account credentials and phone numbers as environment variables. Then, create a new Go project, install the required library, write a short program that uses these environment variables to authenticate and send an SMS. The program creates a Twilio client object, initializes a CreateMessageParams structure with the recipient's and sender's phone numbers and the message body, and finally uses the Twilio client object to create a new message resource. After running the program, you should receive the SMS on your mobile phone. Note that if you're using a free Twilio account, the number used as an SMS recipient must be verified in your account.

Company
Twilio

Date published
June 23, 2021

Author(s)
Miguel Grinberg

Word count
923

Language
English

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