Update 5:50 PM ET: LinkedIn appears to have been restored globally, but it’s still unclear what caused the outage.
It’s not just you. LinkedIn is experiencing widespread service outages, with users complaining to other social media sites such as X and Facebook.
It’s unclear what caused the LinkedIn outage, but Down Detector received tens of thousands of complaints, which appear to have started around 3:40 p.m. ET.network block Report LinkedIn is down in “multiple countries,” suggesting it’s a global issue.
This outage follows major outages at other sites, such as Facebook and Instagramboth were paralyzed for several hours on Tuesday.
Currently, anyone trying to access LinkedIn from the United States will see an image that says “An error occurred,” along with instructions directing users to the Help Center. But clicking the Help Center link won’t bring you any useful information. Even clicking on the “Contact Us” hyperlink will take you back to the currently closed LinkedIn domain.
The help center page currently gives an error with the following content:
Unable to locate server; server has no DNS entry. Perhaps the server name is misspelled or the server no longer exists; double-check the name and try again.Please double check the URL (address) you use, or contact us If you think you have visited this page in error.
Many theories have emerged on social media sites about LinkedIn’s possible outage, including conspiracy theories that crop up whenever such service outages occur.Many insist there was something fishy about AT&T’s outage late last month, comparing the outage to a Netflix movie leave the world behind.
Merriam-Webster’s official X account tweeted that even the dictionary seemed to think something strange was going on. About the event.
A LinkedIn spokesperson reached out to Gizmodo via email for comment and forwarded a tweet It says“It’s not you, it’s us.” You may encounter problems when trying to access LinkedIn. Our team is working hard to resolve this issue, you can check for updates on our status page: https://linkedin-status.com“.