Company
Date Published
Author
Twilio
Word count
371
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Twilio billing system experienced an anomaly on July 18th, 2013, causing erroneous credit card charges and account suspensions for approximately 1.1% of customer accounts. The issue was resolved by the on-call team, with service restored to all affected accounts by 6:24am PDT/1:24pm GMT, although a brief re-occurrence occurred later in the day. To make up for the inconvenience, Twilio is crediting affected customers an additional 10% of their last 30 days' spend and refunding erroneous credit card transactions, as well as making those who incurred overdraft or over-limit fees whole. The company acknowledges that its response was not satisfactory and is committed to providing better quality service in the future.