Buffer incident

Issue with Threads comments

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Buffer experienced a minor incident on July 19, 2026 affecting Community and Threads, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 19, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC

Affected components

CommunityThreads

Update timeline

  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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)