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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- Publishing
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Aug 07, 2026, 04:56 AM UTC
Status: Investigating Some users are currently not receiving email notifications when team members request their approval on post drafts. The approval process is working as usual, this only affects the email notifications. Our engineering team is currently investigating the cause, and we'll provide updates here as soon as we know more. Affected components Publishing (Degraded performance)
- monitoring · Aug 07, 2026, 05:35 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring The issue affecting approval request notification emails has been fixed, and we’re keeping an eye on it to ensure it continues to run smoothly. Thank you for your patience as we worked to resolve this issue. Affected components Publishing (Operational)
- resolved · Aug 07, 2026, 05:51 AM UTC
Status: Resolved The issue with approval required notification emails has been fully resolved, and it’s functioning as expected again. If you encounter any further problems, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team. Affected components Publishing (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved The issue with approval required notification emails has been fully resolved, and it’s functioning as expected again. If you encounter any further problems, please…
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- Buffer MCPBuffer APIPublishingLoginChannel connectionsAnalyticsCommunitySettingsInstagramFacebook
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved · Aug 05, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC
Status: Resolved We are aware that earlier today, Wednesday 5th August, at roughly 9am UTC, there was a temporary issue that impacted the publishing success rates of Pinterest. It does appear that this was an issue directly with Pinterest's API, and it was a transient issue that recovered by 9:50am UTC. Publishing success for posts from Buffer to Pinterest are back to normal levels now. If you noticed any of your posts from earlier today to Pinterest have failed, retrying them again in Buffer should allow them to post normally. We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused by this incident. Affected components Facebook (Operational) Pinterest (Operational) Analytics (Operational) Youtube (Operational) Login (Operational) Settings (Operational) X (Operational) Community (Operational) Mastodon (Operational) Channel connections (Operational) Publishing (Operational) Google Business profile (Operational) LinkedIn (Operational) Threads (Operational) TikTok (Operational) Bluesky (Operational) Buffer API (Operational) Instagram (Operational) Buffer MCP (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved We are aware that earlier today, Wednesday 5th August, at roughly 9am UTC, there was a temporary issue that impacted the publishing success rates of Pinterest. It …
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- PublishingFacebook
Timeline · 2 updates
- monitoring · Jul 29, 2026, 12:28 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We identified an issue earlier today that resulted in a small number of failed posts to Facebook, and this has since been fixed. If your updates were one of the few updates to have failed during this time, please can you retry the failed post again now? It should be working normally once again. We do apologise for any inconvenience created with this issue. Affected components Publishing (Degraded performance) Facebook (Degraded performance)
- resolved · Jul 30, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC
Status: Resolved Thank you for all your patience with us as we continued to monitor the fix that was put in place yesterday over that small number of Facebook posts that failed. We have fully resolved this incident now, and after monitoring for the past 24 hours, we're fully confident everything is back to normal. Apologies again for any inconvenience that may have been created through this temporary issue. Affected components Facebook (Operational) Publishing (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved Thank you for all your patience with us as we continued to monitor the fix that was put in place yesterday over that small number of Facebook posts that failed. We…
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- Channel connectionsSettings
Timeline · 1 update
- investigating · Jul 21, 2026, 01:40 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently experiencing loading the channels sidebar in Buffer, which may affect your app performance. Our team is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We’ll keep you updated on our progress and apologise for the disruption. Affected components Channel connections (Degraded performance) Settings (Degraded performance)
Latest: Status: Investigating We’re currently experiencing loading the channels sidebar in Buffer, which may affect your app performance. Our team is aware of the issue and is working to r…
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- CommunityThreads
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Jul 13, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We're currently experiencing a delay while updating new comments from Threads API. Our engineering team is currently investigating the cause, and we'll provide updates here as soon as we know more. Affected components Community (Partial outage) Threads (Partial outage)
- identified · Jul 13, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC
Status: Identified We've confirmed that an issue with the Meta API is causing the delay, and we’re working with the Threads/Meta team to restore normal delivery of new comments. In the meantime, as a mitigation, we’ve enabled a backup mechanism to help recover recent comments. You can also trigger a manual sync by visiting the Threads channel page in Community or clicking Sync now. Affected components Threads (Degraded performance) Community (Degraded performance)
- resolved · Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC
Status: Resolved This issue has been resolved, and new Threads comments should now be delivered normally. Our backup mechanism has also recovered recent comments that were delayed during the incident. We sincerely apologise for the disruption. Affected components Threads (Operational) Community (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved This issue has been resolved, and new Threads comments should now be delivered normally. Our backup mechanism has also recovered recent comments that were delayed …
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- Started Aug 07, 2026, 05:51 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 07, 2026, 05:51 AM UTC · —
- Started Aug 05, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 05, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC · —
- Issue Publishing Posts to Facebook ResolvedStarted Jul 30, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC · Resolved Jul 30, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC · —
- Degraded Performance ResolvedStarted Jul 21, 2026, 01:40 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 21, 2026, 03:19 PM UTC · 1h 38m
- Issue with Threads comments ResolvedStarted Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC · Resolved Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC · —
- Started Jul 19, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC · Resolved Jul 19, 2026, 10:01 AM UTC · —
- Issue with Help Center ResolvedStarted Jul 14, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 14, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC · —
- Issue Publishing Posts to LinkedIn ResolvedStarted Jul 14, 2026, 06:39 AM UTC · Resolved Jul 14, 2026, 07:55 AM UTC · 1h 16m