LinkedIn suffered a notable outage on Thursday, displaying error messages to users attempting to
access the platform. The incident occurred shortly after 2:15 AM, leaving individuals worldwide
unable to access job listings, resumes, and influencer content.
Both the LinkedIn mobile apps and website experienced temporary downtime. The platform’s
status page acknowledged the issue at 2:34 AM, stating that “Some 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!” As of 3:45 AM, the most recent message says, “This has now been
resolved and we’re back up and running. Apologies for any inconvenience caused and thanks for
your patience!”
Sorry about the interruption. We’re back up and running.
— LinkedIn Help (@LinkedInHelp) March 6, 2024
The outage appeared to be isolated to LinkedIn, with no connection to previous technical problems
experienced by Meta’s network or other services such as Azure’s cloud platform. NetBlocks, an
internet connectivity monitoring service, confirmed that multiple countries were affected by the
disruption.
Despite the setback, LinkedIn executives took the opportunity to promote their new hiring pages
during the downtime, signalling a swift return to normalcy once services were restored as usual.
