SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site LinkedIn said it had resolved a technical glitch on its platform after thousands of users reported difficulties in accessing the website.
Downdetector, an outage tracking website, showed there were close to 26,000 incidents of people reporting issues with LinkedIn. Earlier in the day, LinkedIn said an issue across its platform was causing certain functional requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly and that it was working on a fix.
The outage reports seemed to be centered around US job hubs such as New York and San Francisco, but users in Europe and Asia also reported issues. One of the messages told LinkedIn users that “an error has occurred” while delivering a lengthy, indecipherable reference code. Another said the site was “unable to locate the server.”
Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might have affected a larger number of users.
Pardon the interruption everyone. We’re back on track now. Unconfirmed reports indicate it might have been Agatha all along. ????
— LinkedIn (@LinkedIn) February 23, 2021
The company didn’t give a specific reason for the outage, though did jokingly suggest the issues may have been due to a WandaVision character. It is rare for LinkedIn to experience outages. LinkedIn last experienced widespread issues in January last year, when users weren’t able to post to the service or make new connections.
Today’s outage affected the entire website, and it wasn’t loading for most users at all. California-based LinkedIn helps employers assess a candidate’s suitability for a role and employees use the platform to find new job.
