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Now it's LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

Now its LinkedIns turn to fall over Outage hits thinkfluencer hub
What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network

If you can't get into LinkedIn at the moment, you're not alone: The social network is unavailable due to an unexplained outage.

Visit the Facebook-but-for-pretending-your-life-is-amazing dotcom right now, and you'll be greeted not with chaff from thinkfluencers but a message saying: "An error has occurred." The site stopped working shortly before 1300 PT (2100 UTC), preventing people from logging in.

If you hit refresh a few times you might see a HTTP 500 message like the one below:

Screenshot of LinkedIn's outage, with a DNS-related HTTP 500 error

A more detailed error message from LinkedIn, mid-outage ... Click to enlarge

Yes, this could be a DNS screw-up. The message on linkedin.com reads:

So far we're seeing reports of downtime from folks in Europe, and North and South America; it may well be a global outage. Downdetector.com has had a surge in complaints, with more than 43,000 in the past hour from peeps unable to tell everyone how blessed they are or scroll through posts about how teamwork makes the dream work.

The Microsoft-owned site's status page shows everything is OK, at time of writing, as does the API health monitor. Clicking through to the LinkedIn developer site and we get another error:

This comes after a multi-hour outage at Meta yesterday.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates...

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