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Advanced Guide to Link Shortening and Link Tracking with Twilio Messaging
Blog post from Twilio
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Date Published
Author
Hao Wang
Word Count
766
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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Summary
The guide covers setting up link shortening and click-tracking using Twilio's Link Shortening feature, which enables the creation of company-branded shortened URLs without extra API calls. To implement this, users must set up an organization in the Twilio Admin Center, register domains with a DNS provider, add a CNAME record to point to Twilio's server, generate a TLS certificate, and upload it to Twilio. Additionally, users can test their setup using Twilio's built-in test UI or through the API, and verify click-tracking by inspecting HTTP traffic on a tool like beeceptor.com.