LinkedIn, the platform of choice for professionals, shut down thousands of users globally on Wednesday night.
DownDetector flagged the outage shortly after 3:45 PM ET. LinkedIn’s mobile app and website were both crippled by the outage.
LinkedIn acknowledged the issue on its status page at 4:04 p.m. ET, saying: “Some members may be experiencing issues on LinkedIn. We are actively working on this and will provide updates as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience !” However, the outage was short-lived and service was restored at 5:05 PM ET, with LinkedIn announcing: “This issue has now been resolved and we are back up and running. We apologize for any inconvenience, Thanks for your patience!”
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This incident follows yesterday’s massive outage of Meta. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experienced outages for nearly two hours.
this Bloomberg Billionaires Index According to reports, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth shrank by 2.2%, a staggering loss of nearly $3 billion.
Continuous power outages trigger heated discussions among netizens
An Not sure who this is) is doing a trial run for a grid shutdown. The world will soon be coming to a massive end.”
Another user lamented, “LinkedIn is completely failing for me. Both on the Android app and on the web. Can’t even access my feed,” while another quipped, “I guess LinkedIn doesn’t have… links… In…haha.”
“Why I just heard someone out of work say ‘LinkedIn going down is a sign I don’t need a job’ but our economy will never get better,” one person posted.
Another was even funnier: “I tried my best to find a job on #LinkedIn and suddenly it failed! Is this a sign I shouldn’t be working?”
Some users even said of the X-only part of the outage, “Everyone went to Twitter to check LinkedIn was down…”
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DownDetector’s statistics are telling, with more than 48,000 reports received during the LinkedIn outage. 70% of these issues were related to website issues, and 28% were related to application functionality and profile access issues.
In 2016, tech giant Microsoft acquired LinkedIn.