Twilio outage on October 27, 2026: Elevated 500 Errors Affecting Programmable Messaging API
Twilio reported an incident affecting Twilio for 1 minute on 27 October 2026, from 21:44 to 21:44 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Twilio
- Started
- 21:44
- 27 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 21:44
- 27 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- <1m
- 1 minute
- Impact
- -
- as rated by Twilio
- Updates
- 1
- posted by Twilio
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Twilio
Elevated 500 Errors Affecting Programmable Messaging API
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Official
Resolved
Twilio Programmable Messaging API was degraded for 53 seconds between 2:08:42 to 2:09:35 pm PDT on Tues, Oct. 27. During this period of time, customers may have received 500 errors in response to their API requests. The issue has now been resolved.
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What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test www.twilio.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Twilio status shows what our checks see right now.
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