Buffer experienced a minor incident on March 13, 2026 affecting Buffer iOS App and Buffer Web App and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 12, 2026, 03:03 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently investigating an issue causing Facebook Page video posts to fail for many users. Our team is actively working to resolve this as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologise for the disruption. Affected components Buffer Web App (Degraded performance) Buffer Android App (Degraded performance) Buffer iOS App (Degraded performance)
- identified Mar 12, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC
Status: Identified We've identified an issue with Facebook video posts failing. Other Meta API users are reporting the same problem, and there's an active thread: https://developers.facebook.com/community/threads/1249634937370976/ in the Meta developer community. We're monitoring the situation and will update as we learn more. Affected components Buffer Web App (Degraded performance) Buffer Android App (Degraded performance) Buffer iOS App (Degraded performance)
- resolved Mar 13, 2026, 09:22 AM UTC
Status: Resolved We're happy to see that publishing success rates for updates including videos to Facebook have returned to normal now, and we're no longer seeing the errors from Meta that were identified yesterday. If you have any failed posts still in your queue in Buffer, please can you retry sending again now? Thank you so much for your patience with us throughout this incident, and we're very sorry for the inconvenience it caused. Affected components Buffer Web App (Operational) Buffer Android App (Operational) Buffer iOS App (Operational)