Late for the Gospel twist automatically send late SMS

Recently, according to Sohu reported, I believe that many people have more or less the time to arrive at a certain place or on time to the appointment of the experience, late will not only make their own embarrassment, but also let your people feel that they do not have the time concept. Recently, the American start-up company Twist has developed a new mobile phone application, is intended to help people solve this problem, to avoid the embarrassment caused by late.

Of course, twist does not guarantee that you will not be late, but in a variety of ways, let the other person know your real-time location and estimated arrival time. In this way, the people who wait for you will not be so distracted, at least psychologically you will not be so blame, this application can get the user's affirmation, we will wait and see.

When you want to attend a meeting or a date, first enter the destination in the twist, the agreed time and the contact of each other, when you leave to the appointment, twist will be based on your position changes, judge you have set out. Typically, the other person receives two messages, one that you are on the road to and can arrive on time. Another is that if the agreed time is approaching and you have not arrived, twist will automatically send a text message to the person waiting for you, indicating the time you expect to arrive. If you encounter traffic jams, twist will be based on a variety of indicators to recalculate the estimated arrival time, and sent to the people waiting for you. So you don't have to waste time estimating an exact time to arrive, and you don't have to send text messages or phone calls to the other person, and the other person has a pretty good idea of how long it will take.

At first glance, it seems that twist's application market is very small, but actually the number of potential users is very large. Twist hired a professional consultancy to conduct nationwide questionnaires, and the results showed that 24% of Americans would send information to those waiting when they were late.

Twist co-founder Bill Lee has revealed that their team has been developing the application for up to a year, and has been repeatedly optimized from small problems. Another founder, Mike Belshe, said: "Our team has spent a lot of time studying how to prepare to calculate the time to arrive at the destination, no matter what transportation you get to the destination, twist estimated time accuracy of up to 98%." "In fact, twist mainly rely on GPs to determine whether users have left the residence, the road, speed, distance to the destination, etc." In addition, according to the speed of change, judge the user is walking, cycling, driving or by bus, and whether a traffic jam, in order to update the previous estimate.

Currently twist only supports iphone,android version of the application is being developed. The company has just received 6 million dollars in funding.