NO, you can't use your own phone number to text from.

During the sign up process you will be asked to enter your area code. In doing so, you'll be given dozens of choices to choose from. Although they are not your number, they'll forward to your real number if called.

If a recipient replies to your text message, it is not sent/forwarded to your real number. It is simply stored in twilio and not retrievable.

*In the future, we'll have two way texting. For now, it's simply outbound only.