Yup, just like chatroulette<p><pre><code> Message received from 858-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 21:59:46 GMT+0000 (UTC)
What nonsense do you speak of? The humanity!
Reply received from 724-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:28:29 GMT+0000 (UTC)
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Lissn.com reminds me of a far more polished "chatroulette for text" except I was able to talk to a lady in Japan for half an hour about the recent tragedy on Lissn, and I didn't have to disclose my cellphone number to anybody or get billed for using the service.
I built this a few months ago on twilio as well, and spent a massive amount of time trying to dispel the "chatroulette for ____" angle :)<p>my initial testers all got nailed with $30+ cell phone bill increases because Twilio only has american numbers. and canadians can't text american numbers for free anymore.<p>if anybody wants the code, it's built in django and I own www.texted.in with it (currently down since djangy is going away)
<p><pre><code> Message received from 479-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:26:23 GMT+0000 (UTC)
I'm from England!
Reply received from 626-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:29:32 GMT+0000 (UTC)
I am fasting, but it's not going very well.
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If only Twilio would support international messaging by default so I could have got that reply, and had a message to reply to.
I never, ever participated in Chartoulette, but for some odd reason I immediately tested this out.<p>And, I have to admit - it's a winner.<p>It's like the Cracker Jacks of text messaging. Every text is a winner...
I think many people are confused and don't quite understand which message they should be replying to.. perhaps it'd be better to have 2 numbers? One for starting an exchange and one for completing them..
Very cool application of Twilio!<p>I'd feel more comfortable trying it if my SMSs weren't publicly displayed.<p>Although I did just upgrade my SMS plan to 1,000... Hmm.