LinkedIn Outage Affecting Thousands Of Users

'Some members may be experiencing issues on LinkedIn,' the Microsoft-owned social network’s status page said.

An outage affecting LinkedIn was impacting tens of thousands of users on Wednesday.

When logging into the Microsoft-owned social network, a message saying “an error has occurred” is showing for many users. According to Downdetector, which tracks outages across the internet, just over 42,000 users reported outages on LinkedIn as of 4:09 p.m. ET. By 6:09 p.m. ET, the number of outage reports dropped to 136.

According to the LinkedIn status page at 4:04 p.m. ET, “[s]ome members may be experiencing issues on LinkedIn. We’re actively working on this and will provide updates as we have them. Thanks for your patience!”

Shortly after that update, LinkedIn posted that “[w]e are continuing to investigate this issue.” The issues seemed to be resolved and all systems were operational by

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CRN has reached out to Microsoft for comment.

The outage comes a day after a massive outage hit Meta Platforms, affecting hundreds of thousands of users. The Meta outage, which affected Facebook, Threads and Instagram, was resolved within a couple hours.