Craigslist status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Craigslist reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Craigslist users through our website.

• Errors (60%)
• Sign in (20%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Craigslist outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Aurora	Sign in	2 months ago
Oklahoma City	Website Down	2 months ago
Columbus	Errors	2 months ago
Juneau	Errors	2 months ago
Juneau	Errors	2 months ago
Allentown	Website Down	3 months ago

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Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Cody Veritas🦌 (@YourGoodFriendR) reported 8 seconds ago

  it's probably becoming a non-issue because no one under 30 even knows what craigslist is, but it's genuinely mostly scams at this point. Not a website to go to.

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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 2 minutes ago

  When I saw this log cabin for sale on Craigslist 5 years ago I thought it was a scam. I talked to the 80-year old owner on the phone & still thought it couldn’t be real & how elaborate this hoax was. Pulling down the long driveway, I still didn’t know if it would be real then there it was. Perfectly placed on the hill like something out of a fairytale. Everyone else interested in buying the property were going to tear it down. It couldn’t be saved they said. It took me the better part of 2 years but I saved it and in turned it saved me. It made me a believer again.

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  ᯓʟᴇᴠɪ★ (@animal2you) reported 7 minutes ago

  is there a diy alternative for this problem? can i order a surgeon from craigslist? can i order the scalpel from the grey web?

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  CAPT Shuyan Huang MD (@CptHuang) reported 10 minutes ago

  Caution with this #goatmilk lady - i ain't offering the #refundpolicy when y'all get into trouble. 1) false pretenses 2) the cyberstalking via craiglist 3) told me that she wanted me to sign some papers; the next day, it was probably a DEA staff. [?White male in blue SUV or something?]

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  Shaf (@Shafpocalypse) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CoFoundersNik During Hurricane Harvey, ‘clean up crews’ descended on Houston and they stole everything not nailed down while ‘remediating’. Telling homeowners things had been destroyed by water. The glut of flat screen tvs, electronics, and high end furniture that were undamaged by water or that had minimal damage, that went on sale on Craigslist or FB marketplace or eBay It is a cottage industry of legit dirt bags

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  PeteHustle (@PeteHustle) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ausome_a @TraeyzX @Timberwolves I can imagine and with electronic flagging I bet it’s getting more difficult but that’s why you gotta switch between Ticketmaster, Gametime and StubHub and if you can sell privately and just transfer to another team email that usually helps keep the numbers down. I miss the days where you could go on craigslist, and a seller could just email you the tickets.

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  FoamingPig (@FoamingPig) reported 13 minutes ago

  @muhasaba_needer went back to look on craigslist and they were gone same as the UTV I looked at earlier and thought 'that looks like a good deal' indecision drags me down

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  Leo (@LeoExisting) reported 13 minutes ago

  @lalalvsz @eternallyevii Maybe check your local marketplace (Facebook, Craigslist, etc) I’ve found some cheaper ones that just really need to be wiped down

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  Isla Ellis (@IslaEllis7) reported 13 minutes ago

  @News3LV This is so wonderful, but should be a regular occurrence to help with the overpopulation problem. Just look on craigslist to see all the unwanted kittens who will never get homes or end up being killed at the animal foundation.

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  l,alma (@lalma67) reported 14 minutes ago

  craigslist free section is 90% broken printers and someone's entire VHS collection of recorded golf tournaments from 1998

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  Sir Duke the Realist (@Thedukeg1993) reported 18 minutes ago

  @GOP_is_Gutless One, never buy anything off of Facebook marketplace or Craigslist. That's a lure into trouble. He could have bought it from a real dealer (not victim blaming, just a smarter, safer alternative). Two, usual suspects. Typical

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  KDB 👁️ controversial woman appreciator (@httpswebpage) reported 26 minutes ago

  lease isn't up for six months but I'm still scrolling craigslist ads to get my heart broken

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  Cúper Y. Ashraf (@Cuuper22) reported 26 minutes ago

  @GregHBurnham I hate the gpt "reasonable/practical/useful/clean....safe" garbage. I get its use for safety, but it is so annoying as it makes the thinking paradigm soooo ngmi coated regardless of scope/topic. Like they are really good at finding potential failure modes and problems. However, it treats it as an immovable object and execuse to downscope whatever the prompt entails. For example, i asked it to retrieve and store info from a Wikipedia page that need formatting in an md file: 3 turns arguing that the page is inaccessible as the python environment it has has "no direct wikipedia to md tool" and i had to tell it which tools to do. 2 turns arguing about how the file size is large and content being long to be displayed inline, thus it won't attempt it and it provided a" cleaner script for you to run on your machine". And some turns to get it to do basic data processing as it kept falling beck to try to "verify from online" if the generated processing was accurate or not and when it couldn't it just stops to tell me it didn't do any work because of that, fyi, the data in question was simply <100 rows and the processing is just getting median and mean of the entries for some wc stuff. So not a sophisticated LHC calibration and testing data. Fallback to certainty is ok. The issie is it also happens on another end. Like I asked it (codex here) to view craigslist ads for some housing and so and filter based on some criteria. For some reason, it felt like it needed smoke tests, ledgers, evidence packets, and deployment pipeline with robust standard, which wasted the token limit for an incomplete final output. You would ask for "find me good shoes to use for hiking XYZ mountain" it will tunnle vision to shoes exciplicitly associated with mt XYZ, if not found, it starts to downscope to regular shoes. Where if it had only looked for hiking shoes then eliminated due to to XYZ specifics.

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  Raunak (@stratwright) reported 27 minutes ago

  In 1957, an 18-year-old named Yvon Chouinard went to a junkyard, bought some scrap metal, and taught himself to blacksmith so he could make better climbing gear. He sold pitons out of his car for $1.50 each. He ate cat food on climbing trips to save money. He had no investors, no business plan, no MBA. Just a product he believed in and customers who needed it. That company became Patagonia. It now does $1.5 billion in annual revenue. He never took outside investment. Not once, in 50 years. The idea that you need to move fast to win is one of the most expensive lies in business. An Inc. study tracking more than 100,000 midsize US businesses over 20 years found something most founders don't want to hear: the faster a company grew in one period, the less likely it was to grow again in the future, and the more likely it was to fail. The companies that grew consistently, year after year at moderate rates, were the ones still standing two decades later. Mailchimp bootstrapped for 20 years before Intuit acquired it for $12 billion in 2021. Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius owned 100% of it. No dilution. No board telling them what to do. They just kept reinvesting profits, fixing what didn't work, and not rushing. Basecamp has been around since 1999. Same product, roughly the same team, never needed outside money. Jason Fried turned down every VC offer and wrote a book about it. Their annual revenue hasn't been disclosed but it's been consistently profitable for over 25 years. They turned down a $100M acquisition offer in the early 2000s. Craigslist is still one of the most visited websites in America. It has roughly 50 employees. It generates hundreds of millions in revenue per year. Craig Newmark started it in 1995 as an email list. The pattern across all of them is the same. They stayed small long enough to figure out what actually worked. They didn't raise money to paper over bad decisions with marketing spend. They survived downturns because they weren't burning cash they didn't have. And they kept 100% of the thing they built. Fast growth feels like winning. What it actually does is compress your learning curve while multiplying your costs, hire people before you know what to do with them, and optimize for metrics that look good in a pitch deck but don't necessarily mean the business works. The S&P 500 average company lifespan was around 30 years when Patagonia was founded in 1973. Today it's less than 18. Companies are being hollowed out faster than ever. The ones that last keep doing roughly what Chouinard did: build something real, charge a fair price for it, don't spend more than you make, and stay long enough to get good at it. Slow feels wrong when everyone around you is announcing funding rounds and growth hacks and hockey stick projections. It's supposed to feel that way. That's how you know you're doing it right.

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  🔥 QRYZSTOS ALI (Metal Q)🔥 (@Quincinerate) reported 28 minutes ago

  The guitar luthier I found on Craigslist just called me. He’s gonna come fix my Jackson next week and adjust the pickups for more gain. I can already tell this is gonna be my new guy.

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  Daeron Myers (@IAMDAERONMYERS) reported 29 minutes ago

  "I need a box truck to make real money." Nah. I started in a car after my 9-to-5. Saved $2,200 in courier work. Bought a cargo van off Craigslist. Then a box truck. Your vehicle is not the problem.

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  Hargrave_show (@HargraveShow) reported 32 minutes ago

  Comic con *******!! Im gonna tell anna to stop sending people off craigslist to liams house! (This is a joke dont shut my twitter down lol)

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  The Automotivist (@_automotivist) reported 34 minutes ago

  Bought a broken Ford Escape Hybrid off Craigslist for three grand once. The previous owner swore the hybrid battery was dead and priced it like scrap. A fifty-dollar charger and twenty minutes online said otherwise. Everyone else read the headline on that listing. I ran the actual number underneath it, and that's the whole difference between what happened with the Fed today and what happens at your own dealership every time. Friday's issue breaks down this week's freshest price record next to who can actually still afford to buy it.

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  ryan (@kanlu_07) reported 35 minutes ago

  interesting form of intellect bounty hunting. the new form of 'ask reddit' or 'ask stackoverflow' is coalescing. downstream, i would bet this runs into metaculus + craigslist esque domains. micro prediction markets as reward caches for open problems, with pricing to inform compute + harness direction.

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  Danielle Dyer (@danielle4657) reported 41 minutes ago

  I'm pretty positive my sister was the one that attempted to organize the institutionalization at UNM's ER on May 10th 2025 I know what the staging of the ER is - it's like thing they try to pressure patients to go to because you have such little rights there for inquiry / access to patient information related to the exam I was screaming outside of that Roswell, NM hotel on May 10th 2025 as my dad put me into the car - begging him not to take me saying I had been being made to go insane all day in Roswell was agitators, crazy makers and my dad saying to me that I was just having issues still because I had told him about the ***** trafficking thing, same with my mom both of them still not believing me about it believing he was some craigslist kind of scammer or something

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  Cori Arnold (@iamcoriarnold) reported 47 minutes ago

  6. I sold stuff. I got rid of a lot of stuff. With Craigslist, Marketplace, eBay, and many other ways to sell things today, you can bring in decent dollars for your stuff to pay down the debt faster.

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  EyesWideOpen (@ClarityHurts) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Thedude69750960 @bradleyryder @Cryptoboyy_Aji I did NOT have a "chance." I clawed success out of the rocky ******* ground. People make their own "chance." My fiancé and I rented an in-law quarters for $500 a month. It was ONE ROOM! So we slept and crapped right next to the kitchen. We had my pickup and a banged up scooter we got off Craigslist. Most times we took the scooter. Fun times. My fiancé waited tables and I taught piano lessons afternoons and nights, which paid the bills but still didn't offer much to save. So I went to a hard money lender (which means an exhorbitant interest rate and one year to pay it back - or you get your shins broken. But no credit check.) and bought wrecked houses, fixed them up, and flipped them. It was grueling work which cost me blood, sleep, and in the end a f'd up back. But we saved enough to buy our OWN wrecked house and fixed it up. Again grueling. We had to use the gas station bathroom for a months while we rebuilt the plumbing in the "new" house. Eventually, we started a new business and phased out the piano lessons and waitressing. Now we have four kids, and life is golden. Opportunity doesn't just fall in your lap. You have to fight and claw and dig for it. But it hurts. It's much less painful to sit around making lousy excuses.

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  Vijay Peduru (@VijayPeduru) reported 51 minutes ago

  Most people wait for a genius business idea before they start. So they wait forever. In 1995, Craig Newmark was 42 and new to San Francisco. He'd just been laid off. People online had helped him figure out the city. Where to go. What was worth seeing. He wanted to give a little back. So he built the smallest thing he could. An email of cool arts and tech events that week. He sent it to 12 friends. That was it. Stuff he already loved, sent to people who already trusted him. His friends forwarded it. More people asked to be added. The list broke his email software at 240 people. Then someone asked, "can you post a job?" Then, "can you post an apartment?" He kept saying yes. Today Craigslist gets 50 million visitors a month. Forbes values Craigslist at $3 billion. He runs it with about 40 people. You already know a thing you wish existed. A tool. A guide. A simple answer nobody has written down. And you already know a handful of people who'd trust you to make it. Build what you wish already existed. Then hand it to the customers who already trust you.

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  Blackish Press (@blackishpress) reported 51 minutes ago

  Colman Domingo appeared on the 'Good Hang with Amy Poehler' program and talked about how he met his husband, Raúl, over 20 years ago "It's a weird thing because I lived in San Francisco for 10 years, then moved to New York. I went back to San Francisco to do a show at Berkeley Rep. I was in Berkeley, California, crossing paths going into a Walgreens, when I saw the most beautiful person I think I've ever seen. Not just beautiful aesthetically, but energetically. We never speak. Three days later, I was trying to buy a used computer on Craigslist. I couldn't stop thinking about him, so I thought about posting one of those Missed Connections ads. I used to read them like crazy. I got to the second page, and the third one down — I remember exactly the placement — it said: "Saw you outside of Walgreens, Berkeley." He had posted it just an hour before I looked. So we were looking for each other. And then we met. I'm so uncool: we met three days later, had our first date, and I literally said, "I think I love you, and you're going to change my life." That's how uncool I am, though."

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  Billy Dickson 🪐💫🌕🫧 (@Billy_Dickson) reported 51 minutes ago

  @KosinskiKen I’m sick and tired of people shoving their ****** crosses down everyone’s throats but that don’t stop you. Also homie you have a bad case of the gay face and you look like you smell like Craigslist.

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  Moe (@MoeNFL) reported 53 minutes ago

  @NickFreiling He's wrong. You are wrong too. Craigslist is full of Toyotas that have 100k to 130k miles for less than 10k. Yes they are old but they are very reliable and very easy cheap to fix if anything breaks. The idea that buying new is the only way to get a reliable car is false

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  Lady Soleil (@LadySoleil33) reported 54 minutes ago

  🙌 Hits it on the nail! I remember when Facebook started I was in school and we were using Friendster so, what did FB do to take over? Same with Airbnb - craigslist was also doing rentals - Uber same....how can you take over the Yellow cabseveryone has been using for years - thinking outside of the box and narrowing it down to one problem to resolve is usually the winning strategy 💫

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  John Mac (@JohnMcCart87216) reported 54 minutes ago

  @AllHailTzeentch @StefanMolyneux My car was broken into, my wallet and music gear was stolen, and listed on craigslist and the seller included his address (across the street from me), and I had two gas station videos of him using my credit card --- the cops said THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW UP.

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  YellowHibiscus (@mynoyb) reported 57 minutes ago

  @PastorBowman @SoMuchBloodJoe I sold stuff on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for years, as recent as 2024, and always sold at my house. Never had an issue.

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  Todd S. Howard (@ToddHowardSigma) reported 58 minutes ago

  @TheLastKekker If Facebook marketplace goes down will Craigslist take its place?