Posts by Doug Barth

We’ve been making a number of enhancements to our routing campaign. Our routing campaign allows you to setup a bidirectional SMS connection to your application. Using this campaign, your custom application can receive MOs from a user texting your keyword on a short code. Upon receiving a POST from our system, your application can run its logic and then optionally send MTs back to the user.

Quicker Creation and Duplication

Setting up new routing campaigns is now easier with a single page to fill out. The only required information is a description, keyword, and a URL to send messages to. If you have a routing campaign that is mostly right, you can choose to duplicate that campaign. You will be presented with an already filled out form, which you can edit and submit to get up and running quickly.

Export SMS Messages

We added support for exporting all the MOs and MTs associated with your routing campaign. After clicking the link in the sidebar, confirm the information name and email address in the form and click “Export Now”. The export process will occur in the background and an email will be sent when your file is ready to download.

Recent Activity

At the bottom of the campaign overview page is a listing of the 25 most recent messages that have passed through your routing campaign. You can click the See all link to view all your messages for the past two days, or to adjust the timeframes.

Enhanced API

We added some additional parameter to the message we send to your systems. We in addition to the raw message the user sent, we now call out the identified keyword in their message and the message with the keyword stripped off. We hope breaking apart the message like this will make it easier to handle user requests in your system.

We just pushed some changes to the chat campaign. Here’s a breakdown of what has changed and how that may effect you.

Obfuscated Syndication URLs

We switched our syndication URLs to a format that is not easy to guess. To ease the transition, we are redirecting the old URLs to the new format until next Thursday. Please update any bookmarks or hardcoded links you may have to the new format.

Improved Timeline

We upgraded the format of the chat timeline to better display chat messages. Here’s a screenshot of the chat display. We will be rolling out a new feature that takes advantage of this display style within the next few weeks.

Admin Rights

Finally, we made some actions require an administrator. Administrators will now only be able to reset the timeline, ban/unban a user, and delete a single message. Administrators can adjust user roles in the My Account section of the application.

TextMe has just received major updates to two of our most popular campaign types: sweepstakes and voting. On these two campaign types, we’ve replaced the 4 page creation process with a single page. We think that a single page makes the setup process quicker and easier.

Having a single page also allows us to implement duplication functionality. Sweepstakes and voting campaigns can be duplicated using the “Duplicate Campaign” link in the left action menu. This will take you to a screen that is pre-filled with the details of the campaign being duplicated. You can edit anything on the screen, such as the start and end times. Advanced configuration like age requirements and AMOE forms are also copied. You can edit those options after you create your new campaign.