With over 3.5 billion active users, SMS (Short Message Service) is one of the most widely used data applications in the world. In the United States over 91% of adults own cell phone. Text messaging can be an incredibly useful way for delivering services and information to people.
So today, I'm going to show you how you can create a super simple light weight SMS application with just a few lines of code using Twilio, Lua, webscript.io, and Socrata's Open Data API (SODA). Twilio is a wonderful service that provides a HTTP API that allows people to build quick and easy SMS & voice applications. Lua is lightweight scripting language and [webscript.io](https://www.webscri