The author of this article has created an Azure Functions project using .NET that responds to text messages sent to a Twilio phone number. The function uses the Twilio NuGet package and generates a TwiML response to reply to the incoming message. After setting up the Azure Functions project, the author connects it to Twilio using ngrok, exposing the local web server to the internet. The article concludes by encouraging readers to build upon this example and connect their Azure Function to Spotify to create a full-fledged jukebox application.