Buffer incident
Issue with publishing to Mastodon accounts hosted on mastodon.social and mastodon.online
Buffer experienced a minor incident on October 1, 2026 affecting Publishing and Channel connections and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 01, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC
Status: Identified We’re currently seeing publishing failures through Buffer for Mastodon accounts hosted on mastodon.social: http://mastodon.social and mastodon.online: http://mastodon.online. This affects some Mastodon posts, rather than all Mastodon publishing. The mastodon.social: http://mastodon.social team has reported connectivity issues and is actively investigating. We’re tracking the disruption and its impact on publishing through Buffer. We’re sorry for the interruption and appreciate your patience. Affected components Publishing (Partial outage) Channel connections (Partial outage) Mastodon (Partial outage)
- monitoring Oct 01, 2026, 11:48 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring The success rate for Mastodon publishing over the past hour has significantly increased, and although both mastodon.social: http://mastodon.social and mastodon.online: http://mastodon.online status pages still show “investigating”, the behaviour we’re seeing suggests the issue may be resolved. We'll continue to monitor this. Affected components Publishing (Partial outage) Channel connections (Partial outage) Mastodon (Partial outage)
- resolved Oct 01, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC
Status: Resolved The issue with Mastodon has been resolved, and their servers are performing normally. If you have experienced failed posts during this time, please click Retry Now on each one to try publishing them again. We appreciate your understanding and apologise for any disruption this may have caused. Affected components Publishing (Operational) Channel connections (Operational) Mastodon (Operational)