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 (63%)
• Website Down (25%)
• Sign in (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Aurora	Sign in	30 days ago
Oklahoma City	Website Down	1 month ago
Columbus	Errors	1 month ago
Juneau	Errors	2 months ago
Juneau	Errors	2 months ago
Allentown	Website Down	2 months ago

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Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Billy Dickson 🪐💫🌕🫧 (@Billy_Dickson) reported 5 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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  peepeepoopoo (@DeepDishEnjoyer) reported 6 minutes ago

  back in my day if you wanted to buy bitcoin you would go on craigslist and email a sketchy guy on your protonmail and then meet up at starbucks ******* skill issue if we're being honest

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  PASSIVE INCOME ANNA (@PassiveAnna) reported 8 minutes ago

  20 Unhinged things to try, it gets more unhinged down the line: 1. Read Negative Reviews 2. The "Grandma" Test: Explain your industry to a 70-year-old. 3. Infiltrate Private FB Groups: Join groups for stressed-out professionals (nurses, lawyers, etc.). 4. Scroll Reddit "Help" Subs: Search "How do I" or "I hate it when" in niche subreddits. 5. Find projects that reached 100% funding but failed to deliver. 6. The "Boredom" Method: Sit in a room for 2 hours with no phone, no music, and no pen. Your brain will start hallucinating ideas just to escape the silence. 7. Look for tutorials with 1M+ views but terrible audio. Remake them with high quality and better SEO 8. Audit Your Bank Statement: Look at what you've paid for every month for 2 years. If you’re paying for it, thousands of others are too. Can you do it better/cheaper? 9. Sit in a high-end hotel lobby or airport lounge. Listen to what wealthy people complain about, their "rich people problems" pay the most. 10. Reverse Engineer Your DMs: What is the one thing people always ask you for advice on? 11. Scan Job Postings: Look for companies hiring 5+ people for one role. It means they have a problem. Build a software or agency that solves that specific bottleneck. 12. The "Argue" Method: Go on Twitter and post a slightly wrong take about a niche. The experts who come to correct you will give you all the high-level info you need for free. 13. Check Craigslist "Gigs": See what random, weird tasks people are desperate to outsource. If it’s recurring, it’s a business model. 14. The "Expired Domain" Hunt: Search for popular websites that died. They still have traffic and backlinks; you just need to put a new offer on the old "land." 15. Stalk "App Store" Search Trends: See what people are searching for but can't find. If there's no app for a high-volume search, you just found a gap you can fill. 16. The "Annoyance" Journal: For one week, write down every single thing that mildly irritates you. 17. Analyze Foreign Markets: Look at what’s blowing up in Brazil or China that hasn't hit your country yet. Be the one who imports the trend. 18. The "Refund" Inquiry: Call a big company’s customer service and ask what people most frequently ask for refunds on. 19. Search "Hacks" on TikTok: Find "life hacks" with millions of views. Most hacks are just manual versions of products that should exist. Build the product. 20. The "Delete Everything" Mental Model:If you lost your job and your house today, what’s the first thing you’d do to make $100? That’s your most viable business.

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  FkCoolers (@FkCoolers) reported 9 minutes ago

  @wwornwwell Totally agree, even if much younger me may have spent my afternoons blowing off work to argue on the Craigslist forums about whether Spoon or Broken Social Scene was better haha

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  Jaxon (@jaxoncoder) reported 10 minutes ago

  A brother living near my house bought a used iPhone on Craigslist for $300 cash. It looked brand new. It was completely factory reset. A week later, his camera flash turned on by itself in his dark bedroom. He thought it was just a software glitch. But it was so much worse.

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  iBuyBibles (@iBuyBibles) reported 14 minutes ago

  @PlayStationUK Yall still gonna line up and buy PS6 from scalpers off Craigslist after you calm down. Sony knows it'll get hate for a week and settle off. You'll forget all about this.

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  SUMO Momentum, MBA, Six Sigma (@SUMOmomentums) reported 16 minutes ago

  Dear $META. Stop selling rebuilt cars on marketplace. The platform is allowing this. It’s an easy fix but you won’t care. Shits Craigslist 2026 Facebook Remember Don’t tase me bro? Now it’s- Don’t rob me bro.

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  🇺🇸Mr. Davis 🇺🇸 (@MrDavisII) reported 21 minutes ago

  @ScottPresler @LeaderJohnThune Day 3601 since Scott and boys got down at the Virginia Beach RNC office and posted the pictures on Craigslist.

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  cbay (@cbay_cbay_cbay) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Brooksgallery8 @AmyDiGi , a project made by lovebeing - a crypto only marketplace that is a inspired by ebay and craigslist. peer 2 peer. 🥰 working on updates, and perhaps an escrow system down the line once we have some angel investment

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  YellowHibiscus (@mynoyb) reported 29 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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  Twatter Fools (@FlagTheseNuts) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Mariemintz33 @ColdblodedChrit Says the OF ********** who formerly featured on Craigslist for $40 and a hit of ****. Pipe down Marie - your receipts look as ****** as your loose vag

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  🦪 (@marygaitspill) reported 31 minutes ago

  my problem is I think you should still do bad things that ruin your progress or just give you unnecessary pain because im a very plot-driven person. like I think you should wake up at 5am every morning for a month just to see what it feels like to be a person that wakes up at 5am every morning, I think you should restrict meat intake to once a week not for any moral or religious reasons but just to imagine what it would be like to live like that, I think you should meetup at some random hotel with that fifty year old "artist" from craigslist who's looking for a life model to sketch.

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  Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported 32 minutes ago

  @noonancaddies When I first started out, I tried to get someone to bring a bush whacker out and no one would quote it. Keep in mind this was before Facebook, social media, etc.. I pretty much had to go down the phonebook and also things like craigslist to find subs to call.

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  Mary (@supergreak) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Abomination81 That's darling that you think normal people are spending 42000 on a car. If I had 42K it's a down payment on a 🏠. I don't care if my car is a "depreciating asset", I've had it for 5 years and paid $7500 cash to some dude off Craigslist. Gambling w/debt is for suckers.

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  Joseph Lee 🇰🇷🇨🇦 (@jhylee95) reported 36 minutes ago

  @danielcberk turning down $11B then splurging on $80 Skechers... craigslist beat capitalism

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  Fernando Pinheiro (@fernandoiecp) reported 37 minutes ago

  Portuguese dystopia in one image: the country celebrates a platform that sends ridiculous lowball offers on OLX (Portugal’s main classifieds site, similar to Craigslist) as if that would solve anything, while getting a building permit in Lisbon takes 36 months, there’s a chronic shortage of construction workers, public housing is 2% of the stock (EU average: 15%) and the government just added another 7,5% IMT for foreign buyers that will be passed on to the next Portuguese buyer down the chain. Price is the symptom. The real problem is supply strangled for a decade by red tape, labor shortages and zero public investment, while foreign demand was turbocharged with NHR, Golden Visa and negative Euribor. Liking TikTok videos is easier than demanding by-right permitting, an end to municipal discretion and lower taxes on those who actually build.

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  Juvy 🫦 (@sour_dizel) reported 40 minutes ago

  2026 is terrible!!! You can’t even go on Craigslist and find a nice used car for a private sale anymore. 😩😩😩😩

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  Raunak (@stratwright) reported 41 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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  Red Stator (@thenovanglus) reported 43 minutes ago

  @LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry We bought a lot of our furniture on closeout, at goodwill, off Craigslist, in yard sales, or at BigLots. Now I have single pieces of furniture which costs more than everything totaled in our first house. Our first mattress was a 30yr old hand-me-down from the inlaws that my wife literally actually was conceived on (gross).

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  ghost of governments past (@ghostofgovspast) reported 44 minutes ago

  @CarolinaLion2 but wait...10 minutes ago you said the average price of a house is $516k. You're starting to sound like a craiglist ad for a motorcycle. Wait long enough and the price will come down to reality.

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  Tyrin The Body (@TyrinLeeXXX) reported 44 minutes ago

  Story time 😈 pt 1 When i was 16 i gave my *** up for the first time for the first time to some guy I met on Craigslist. I labeled my ad as 18yr virgin hole and I included pictures. After gettin what felt like a million hits I finally settle on one. We exchanged emails and eventually texts. I explained I was a virgin and looking to take **** for the first time. He had big **** and was obviously older (at the time mid 40s) He walked me through douching via text. I remember using my Gatorade bottle from my high-school gym bag lol to clean out. Which was easy cuz I had my own bathroom in the basement (perks of being the oldest lol). My bedroom was in the basement so I would sneak out of my house through the window, pushed the car out of the drive way so It didn't make noise when I started it lol. It was about 130 am when I finally got to his house. He lived about but about 30 minutes away. I remember being so scared as I got out of my car walking up to the door of his house cuz it was Hella dark. He opened it without coming outside and I walked in. He guided me through through the house, we eventually got to a door which lead to the basement. We go down the stairs and I remember seeing an entire set up, blue lights, music, giant *** bed and giant *** mirror in front. I remember sitting on the bed. He told me to get down and come over to him, as I walk over he drops his pants and told me to suck his ****. And which i did. I remember thinking his **** was much bigger and harder then my friends (we would sometimes jerk each other in the bathroom at school during lunch). About 10 minutes goes by and he tells me to get on the bed but get on all 4s. I started tk sweat slightly cuz i was getting nervous and I remember telling him again that I was brand new to all this. Telling me to just relax, he guided my body to an all 4 position with my *** literally hanging off the bed I was thinking i was gonna fall. He then gave me a bottle (poppers) and told me to sniff lightly. I remember getting the biggest headache and then just just laid my head and chest on the bed cuz **** was spinning. *** still up, he began to eat my hole. Never in my life feeling that sensation immediately tensed up. Things still spinning but slightly less, he tells me to lightly sniff again and then lay back down head and chest to the bed. So I did and he began to eat my hole. Now I'm feeling the euphoria of it all and he begins telling me to push out. I remember being confused and asking what do you mean, he stops and he said verbatim "push like your taking a ****" He hands me the bottle, I sniff and push. I remember literally feeling his tongue slide in and out of my hole. So for about 15 minutes so I'm *** up while he "prepped" me. Then he turned me on my back and dragged me to the edge of the bed. He put a pillow under my lower back and told me to sniff lightly like I've been doing. Now getting a good look at him, I realized this was definitely an older man, but we are so far in and hes clearly into what we are doing so I brushed the idea out of my head. Still slightly being out of it from the poppers, he tells to sniff and push out. I remember feeling the head of his **** on my hole and was hard and pulsating. I remember getting hard and he started to suck my ****. Only for a slight moment and quickly became brick. Once back to position, he then told me to sniff and push. Which I did. Once I felt the head of his **** penetrate me I immediately tensed up. Him talking me through it just said relax, sniff, and push. So I attempted to relax and did as I was told. Once the head was in, it was slight movement until I felt relaxed. He stroked my hole with the head slowly and repeatedly till I opened up which didnt take long after hitting those poppers. After a few minutes he told me I was ready and he went all the way in. I remember squirming in pain for about 1 minute till it just stopped. Then pure pleasure.

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  NekoServentSub (@EverydayRetard) reported 45 minutes ago

  Facebook marketplace is like Craigslist okay I'm just going to solve that problem for all of you now anyone still going to Facebook is a retard. Stay aware not paranoid

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  TravelPants (@PantsToTravel) reported 49 minutes ago

  @mattressguy_ In college I bought a bed off craigslist, got the mattress down the stairs but the box spring couldn’t make the turn. So I took a hammer and and broke the runners and bent it around the turn and duct taped them back together once in the room

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  Night of the living Possum Simp (@possum_simp) reported 50 minutes ago

  @goddammitsarah @turntineforwhat it continued on craigslist till that was shut down

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  Travis Hendricks (@TanookiTravis) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Grummz If your wife asked you to break down the million dollars you made this year, you probably wouldn't mention the used toaster you sold on Craigslist, because it wouldn't be worth the time. Their gaming revenue is a single used toaster to them now.

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  Michael McDoesntexist (@bbsmi7044) reported 52 minutes ago

  @evilvillain1231 @Demon_Realms More like but a $1000 car off Craigslist and learn to fix it yourself. Not servicing **** doesn't save you money, just means you'll have to replace your **** more often.

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  Chandra Shekhar 🛡️ (@cspaliwa1) reported 58 minutes ago

  Assortment of problem statements / Hardest most important problems to work on list Craigslist for "mountains to move"

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  Andros (@0xAndros) reported 60 minutes ago

  What a lot of people didn't know is that @samparr started 15+ businesses before selling @TheHustle for $40M. Here's how he ranks the best business models in the new AI world: S : Marketplaces "Probably the hardest to start, but the most durable." He points to Craigslist and eBay : once you get density (buyers + sellers in the same place), it's nearly impossible for a competitor to unseat you. The moat is the network effect itself. Hardest cold-start problem, but the payoff is a business that lasts decades. A : Agencies / Service Businesses "You have to deal with a lot of people issues, but they're great to start." His point is that agencies aren't the end goal :they're the learning machine. You service clients, learn their pain points intimately, and then use that intel to build products (software, courses, tools). The pivot optionality is the real value. AI systems also makes it much easier to scale agencies/services now A : Software "Anything that's really hard to get into will last probably a bit longer than another business." Public markets are discounting software right now because of AI, but his argument is that for most people there's still difficulty of entry, which equals durability. If it's hard to build, it's hard to kill. B : Events (B2B) "A lot of people are going to disagree with this." He specifically calls out B2B trade shows, less so consumer events (though Coachella made $200M+ in revenue just in 2026) There are event businesses doing hundreds of millions in revenue, very profitably. The key is B2B: you're selling access to a concentrated buyer audience, not $30 tickets. B : Media He owned The Hustle, so this is personal. "If you raise venture capital, it's going to be an F : the worst business you can have." But if you own the whole thing and run it long-term, great business. The split is ownership structure, not the model itself. VC expectations destroy media companies; bootstrap economics make them work. C : Info / Course Business He owns "copy that dot com"). "They can be great cash flow, but they're never going to be worth a lot and they're not going to scale to be very big." The ceiling is the problem. You'll make money, you just won't build generational wealth from it. C : Community He owns @HamptonFounders . "People are pain in the butt, but it's very fulfilling and it can last for 50 or 100 years." The tradeoff: constant member churn vs. extreme longevity if you keep delivering value. D : Middleman / Broker His dad owns a brokerage. "It's been an amazing living for him, but generally those are pretty hard because the margins are so small." The video about his dad's business went super viral, but the reality is razor-thin margins make it a grind. Works for one person's lifestyle, hard to scale. E/F : E-commerce "In most cases, I think that's probably the worst business model." No cash flow, tons of competition. This is the default trap most first-time entrepreneurs fall into. The through-line: durability and defensibility matter more than margins. The S and A tiers are all businesses with structural moats (network effects, switching costs, expertise). The D and F tiers are commodity businesses where you're always one competitor away from irrelevance.

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  Cúper Y. Ashraf (@Cuuper22) reported 1 hour 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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  Honestly Logical (@CarvelliTi76822) reported 1 hour ago

  @ronsterd89 Big tree and big chain. Hook chain to bumper and tree and back up to pull the bumper out and make it good again. Same with other metal. This might work unless the coolers are junk then find a doner truck on craigslist located in the boondocks or parts at a boneyard. Cheap fix.