---
title: "Create a new conversation in your account's default service"
method: POST
path: "/v1/Conversations"
tags: ["ConversationsV1Conversation"]
---

# Create a new conversation in your account's default service

`POST /v1/Conversations`

Create a new conversation in your account's default service

## Headers

- `X-Twilio-Webhook-Enabled` 'true' | 'false'

## Response `201`

Created

- ConversationsV1Conversation
  - `account_sid` string, nullable — The unique ID of the [Account](https://www.twilio.com/docs/iam/api/account) responsible for this conversation.
  - `chat_service_sid` string, nullable — The unique ID of the [Conversation Service](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/service-resource) this conversation belongs to.
  - `messaging_service_sid` string, nullable — The unique ID of the [Messaging Service](https://www.twilio.com/docs/messaging/api/service-resource) this conversation belongs to.
  - `sid` string, nullable — A 34 character string that uniquely identifies this resource.
  - `friendly_name` string, nullable — The human-readable name of this conversation, limited to 256 characters. Optional.
  - `unique_name` string, nullable — An application-defined string that uniquely identifies the resource. It can be used to address the resource in place of the resource's `sid` in the URL.
  - `attributes` string, nullable — An optional string metadata field you can use to store any data you wish. The string value must contain structurally valid JSON if specified. **Note** that if the attributes are not set "{}" will be returned.
  - `state` 'initializing' | 'inactive' | 'active' | 'closed' — Current state of this conversation. Can be either `initializing`, `active`, `inactive` or `closed` and defaults to `active`
  - `date_created` string, date-time, nullable — The date that this resource was created.
  - `date_updated` string, date-time, nullable — The date that this resource was last updated.
  - `timers` unknown
  - `url` string, uri, nullable — An absolute API resource URL for this conversation.
  - `links` object, nullable — Contains absolute URLs to access the [participants](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-participant-resource), [messages](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-message-resource) and [webhooks](https://www.twilio.com/docs/conversations/api/conversation-scoped-webhook-resource) of this conversation.
  - `bindings` unknown

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[API](https://skmtc.net/twilio/apis/conversations-v1.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/twilio/apis/conversations-v1/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/twilio/conversations-v1/versions/34913a501fc2/schema)