Twilio: External DNS Issue Impacting a list of Twilio Services
Cloudflare outage, Jul 17, 2020 · 24 vendors, 24 incidents
Twilio’s incident started in the same window without naming Cloudflare (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +43 min vs the first vendor naming Cloudflare)
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Mermaid source
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root["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour<br/>6 vendors, 6 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Sigma Computing, WorkOS, Doppler, Linode (Akamai) +2"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Cloudflare<br/>Hotjar"]:::blames
root --> h4
me["Twilio (this incident)<br/>posted +43 min"]:::me
root -.->|"same window"| meFull event: timeline, evidence and all vendors →
Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Timeline of updates
- resolved
The external DNS issue impacting a list of Twilio Services has been confirmed addressed by our provider. The incident is now resolved.
From Twilio’s published incident history: for incidents before Rewindex began polling this status page, only the final update text is available.
Archive proof
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How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on status.twilio.com (opens in new tab).