def send_mass_sms(datatuple, fail_silently=False,<EOL>auth_user=None, auth_password=None, connection=None):
from sendsms.message import SmsMessage<EOL>connection = connection or get_connection(<EOL>username = auth_user,<EOL>password = auth_password,<EOL>fail_silently = fail_silently<EOL>)<EOL>messages = [SmsMessage(message=message, from_phone=from_phone, to=to, flash=flash)<EOL>for message, from_phone, to, flash in datatuple]<EOL>connection.send_messages(messages)<EOL>
Given a datatuple of (message, from_phone, to, flash), sends each message to each
recipient list.

:returns: the number of SMSs sent.