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title: "Text Messages"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Engage your audience with SMS and MMS messaging using Campaign Studio's Text Message feature. Learn about templates and segments."
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The Text Message feature enables you to engage with your audience through mobile messaging. You can send text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages to contacts through the SMS provider plugin, Twilio

Campaign Studio provides two types of text messages:

*   [**Template text messages**](/campaign-studio/template-text-messages "Template text messages"): Sends text and multimedia messages to contacts through campaigns.
*   [**Segment text messages**](/campaign-studio/segment-text-messages "Segment text messages"): Sends text and multimedia messages to contact segments.

For sending text and multimedia messages from Campaign Studio, you must:

*   Have a Twilio subscription
*   [Configure the Twilio plugin](/campaign-studio/settings/plugins/twilio-setup)

After you complete the configuration, Campaign Studio displays the **Text Messages** tab in the **Channels** section in the left navigation menu.

Note

*   Twilio supports sending multimedia messages only to US and Canada phone numbers.
*   To receive SMS communications, contacts must have a telephone number entered in the **Phone** or **Mobile** field on their contact record.