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Date Published
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Adam King
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1361
Language
English
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Summary

Here's a neutral and interesting summary of the provided text: Tarik Zawia, an Account Executive at Twilio, collaborated with Adam King, a Senior Solutions Engineer, to develop a solution for organizing a large Christmas party. They identified key pain points such as late-comers not knowing where the party has moved to, people being split up during venue changes, and moderators needing to send messages to attendees. The team used Twilio's Studio flow, Sync service, Functions, Messaging Service, and Notify service to create a system that allows moderators to send ad-hoc messages to attendees via SMS, while keeping user data organized in the Sync service. After building the prototype, Tarik tested it on the night of the event, which reportedly went well, and encourages others to consider adding real-time communications to their projects using Twilio's services.