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 (56%)
• Website Down (33%)
• Sign in (11%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Aurora	Sign in	27 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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  BoVodio Toad (@BovodioToad) reported 7 minutes ago

  @LuckyMcGee lol. I'm just thinking, if you plan to stick it down with silicone, you really need another set of hands. Look on FB marketplace or Craigslist for a handy man and hire them for an hour or two. Maybe reach out to thumbtack if you don't trust the locals.

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  Brother Shaquille Sunflower (@UsernameLoso) reported 7 minutes ago

  It’s really simple to solve the watch party tot issue @TheGarden has. All you have to do is make the tkts non-transferable, that way resellers have no incentive to buy them up and resell on craigslist, eBay & Eventbrite etc. I’ll take 6 tkts to game 3 for solving this for you

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  Safe and Effective (@AproximatDemise) reported 8 minutes ago

  @trentjhughes I think someone just needs to build a real life looking for group app. Let people post in the most unfiltered sense what they're looking to do. Not a Meetup clone, boiled down like 2000's Craigslist. Only stipulation is there's no free version and you have to be verified.

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  John Deez (@J_Nitad) reported 9 minutes ago

  @GOP_is_Gutless I have sold many items on Craigslist. Rule #1 I don't deal with blacks. Not worth the trouble or risk.

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  Michael (@Holden_Rye_) reported 11 minutes ago

  @GaryCardone The patterns. I have been in bitcoin since 2009. We would use craigslist to trade. We mapped the cycles We have known for a long time that the $16k–$18k BTC zone is a major protected structure layer. When BTC dominance bleeds back toward the 40% area and the market breaks down, that lower BTC layer becomes the level everyone watches. That is where bags get filled. So when Saylor sold BTC around that zone and people called it tax-loss harvesting, fine. Maybe it was. But that also means he understood exactly where he was selling. That was not a random level. That was the deep structure layer. So the question is fair: Was it only tax-loss harvesting? Or did he, and possibly others, understand the protected layer better than retail realized? Because if someone knows where the deepest liquidity sits, knows where retail gets liquidated, and has enough influence to move sentiment, then every “strategy” becomes a signal. Then a year later, we see another unusual BTC dominance cycle while ETFs are being approved. That does not feel like normal old-cycle behavior. Maybe I am wrong. But if you knew ETFs were coming, and you wanted clients, friends, institutions, and treasury players positioned near the deepest BTC layer before the Wall Street wrapper arrived, that would be a very convenient time for it. Then Bitcoin gets wrapped into the stock market through ETFs, treasury companies, preferred shares, leverage, and institutional products. At that point, Bitcoin can still be decentralized at the protocol layer while the market layer becomes controlled farming infrastructure. Bitcoin is the asset. Retail is the crop. Wall Street is trying to become the farmer.

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  Messer (@hype_joshy11) reported 12 minutes ago

  @sarkonakj Righto - so a TERF freak like yourself ******* and whined because she "is afraid of men" but ONLY if they're trans? So she wanted to be away from "men" but only trans ones? If wanting "female-only" housing was the only issue, why was she not looking elsewhere? Craigslist etc..??

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  James Camp 🛠,🛠 (@JamesonCamp) reported 14 minutes ago

  In 2020 a 19 year old wholesaler sold me a house in the hood. I was convinced it was step one of a hundred million dollar real estate portfolio. I had just sold my company, DMO. First time in my life I actually had real money. Couple hundred grand in cash, the rest locked in stock with a restriction on it. I was like... this is it. Time to build a real estate portfolio. I was living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the time. Deep in BiggerPockets forums and real estate Twitter. Reading about BRRRR strategy at 2am like it was scripture. The deal was off market. Cobbs Creek, Philly. A 19 year old kid found it, wholesaled it to me, and I thought I was getting the steal of a lifetime. The plan was drive Brooklyn to Philly every weekend during COVID, renovate it in 3 months, flip it, and use the profit to buy two more. Classic BiggerPockets math. For context I cannot build IKEA furniture.... My first contractor was a cop moonlighting as a GC. Seemed legit. Showed up in uniform sometimes. I trusted him completely. He submitted $13,000 in fake lumber receipts. When I fired him he called the city inspector about permits that he had told me we didn't need. We got shut down for 3 months. So now I'm hiring off Craigslist. Everyone's cousin can do electrical. None of them can do electrical themselves. At one point I was standing in a hole in the basement googling "what is a french drain" while two guys I found on the internet watched me. 3 months became 9 months. I went $100k+ over budget + the cash i had paid for the house, i had to take a construction loan to finish it. I had $6M in stock I couldn't touch because it was vesting. And $700 left in my checking account. I sat on the floor of my apartment and cried. The lender would take the house and I would lose everything...$250k+ of my money. One of my best friends Nat lent me $15,000. My sister lent me $10,000. I finished the renovation with borrowed money from people who loved me. Sold the house. Made $2,000~ in profit. Got all my money back out. A friend of mine who actually flips houses for a living said "holy **** you made money? Most people lose their shirt on their first flip." That messed with me.... I thought I had just survived the worst financial experience of my life. Turns out most people have it worse and you never hear about it. The graveyard of failed flips is invisible. You only see the guy on YouTube holding the check. A few months later I bought a hearing aid brand, Blue Angels Hearing. A DTC company already selling online. Sounds random. But I had spent 10+ years growing businesses on the internet. I knew paid acquisition, I knew retention, I knew how to scale a Shopify brand. That was the stuff I was actually good at. We scaled it and flipped it to private equity in 11 months. Made more money in 11 months sitting at my laptop than I did in 18 months of driving to Philly, getting scammed by a cop, and crying on a floor. But I'm not sure I pull off the hearing aid deal without Cobbs Creek. When you're $250K deep in a disaster and there's no plan and no one coming to help, you just... figure it out. One thing at a time. Break the impossible thing into tiny pieces. Chew through it. You'll be someone different on the other side. Sometimes the only way out, is through.

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  Jo Da (@420smokerrr) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sapitonmix I have a individual landlord.Shes 65+yo so if something is broken normally she'll send someone to fix it. 2 years ago when insurance required some tree removal she hired 2 craigslist crackheads.Not insured/bonded, just random junkies that would sleep in there car outside my house

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  Carpital Punishment (@GrandpaFishes) reported 18 minutes ago

  @_Ashaman @contractorkeith - Shouldn't have a car payment - Craigslist/Marketplace for furniture (bare minimum, dont need ottomans and end tables and all that BS) - If you're not working in the field that you studied in college, the student loans are your fault and you're an idiot

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  Cathleen Turner - Margin (@_cat_turner) reported 18 minutes ago

  Your stubbornness can be worth $11B dollars. In 1995 a Craig Newmark, a software engineer, started an email newsletter of cool local events in SF. His list became so popular that within a year he started a basic website, called Craigslist. Over the years competitors raised billions of dollars on websites with beautiful interfaces and payments integrations to compete with him, and failed. His website remains absolutely terrible, we’re talking, blue text with hyperlinks. No fancy fonts, not even a real logo. Craigslist today only employs about 60 people and spends 0 dollars on marketing, and pulls over $600M in revenue. Someone offered $11B for the company and he refused, saying the didn’t want to ruin what already works. The company is still relevant today, with many businesses using Craigslist to drive traffic to their business. The winners don’t always have the most money to start, they are the ones who are relentless on how they execute.

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  just a nobody (@kattulabuzer) reported 21 minutes ago

  @sovernTranch I’ve bought quite a few Craigslist cows and some recently. A lot of them look like that when they come home. They don’t look like terrible after 90 days of some care and worming. Put down the red man chew and your self righteous ego and take care of that animal.

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  Noticing Goy (@Noticing_Goy) reported 28 minutes ago

  @missenterry1 @poojeetstreet I used to refurbish electronics and build computer systems to sell on Craiglist. Hundreds of sales. I simply didn't sell to them. Chinese as well. They aren't much better. If the voice on the phone was broken English, I hung up and blocked.

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  𝙴.𝙱. (@hermesxvii) reported 31 minutes ago

  Airbnb's first growth hack was illegal. In 2010, they built a tool that auto-posted Airbnb listings directly to Craigslist. - Craigslist had the traffic. - Airbnb had the product. Airbnb didn't wait to be discovered. Instead they became a parasite on one of the biggest websites on the internet. By the time Craigslist shut it down, Airbnb had already stolen a million users. Growth hacking is just knowing whose audience to steal before they notice.

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  Billy Dickson 🪐💫🌕🫧 (@Billy_Dickson) reported 37 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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  Krelian (@PoliticianRGay) reported 37 minutes ago

  @SecondAmendment @Fat_Electrician I kept running through dryers, used fancy **** on craigslist. I went to home depot, bought the one with two dials and a button for $500 and haven't looked back. Oddly enough the only thing that has broken is the one thing it has, a dial. I had to order a new plastic dial for $8.

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  Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) reported 37 minutes ago

  In 2013, a croissant-donut sold for up to $100 on the black market. Costco now sells twenty in a box for $9.99. A French pastry chef named Dominique Ansel invented it. He spent two months and about ten failed recipes trying to fry the butter-layered dough used for croissants without it collapsing, then filled the middle with cream and glazed the top. He called it the Cronut. It went on sale at his small SoHo bakery in New York on May 10, 2013. Within a week the shop was making 200 a day and still selling out minutes after opening. Then the lines started. People showed up before 6am, two hours before the doors opened, and the line wrapped around the block. Ansel capped it at two per customer. Scalpers moved in anyway, reselling a $5 pastry for $40 to $100 through Craigslist and one delivery service that charged $100 for a single one. Anderson Cooper got turned down when he tried to order a batch for his birthday. Hugh Jackman waited in line like everyone else. Nine days after the first sale, Ansel filed to trademark the name. By his own count, 27 other people tried to register the same word within days. His went through. That one legal move is why you are reading "Mini Croissant Donuts" on a Costco box instead of "Cronuts," and why the tweet says "inspired by." US law lets anyone copy the recipe, because a way of combining ingredients cannot be owned. The name can be. Ansel owns it. He never put it in a grocery store. The original still sells only at his shops in New York and Las Vegas, one flavor a month that never repeats, about nine dollars each, made over three days, with a shelf life of six to eight hours. Costco's version comes from CT Bakery, a Canadian supplier, twenty mini pastries to a box, half cinnamon sugar and half glazed. It works out to about fifty cents apiece. The same croissant-donut that once needed a dawn line and a two-per-person cap now sits in a warehouse fridge, stacked twenty deep, for less than the sales tax on one original.

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  HowlingGuts (@RueDayton) reported 38 minutes ago

  @gatorgar This can be humor, but objectively speaking there is no greeter betrayal than what meta did to local classifieds. You literally can't sell anything if you've got in trouble once for a post. I wish craigslist was still the main community resale site

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  Sohail Iqbal (@siqbal22) reported 38 minutes ago

  Sell home goods, furniture, and electronics locally 2–4 weeks before listing by using platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor, or Craigslist for quick, high-volume sales. For high-value, high-end items or extensive collections, hire an estate sale professional. Prioritize creating a neutral, decluttered, and bright home environment to appeal to buyers. [1, 2, 3, 4] Top Local Sales Strategies: Facebook Marketplace (Recommended): Best for furniture, electronics, and large household items. Good for rapid transactions. Craigslist: Efficient for furniture and tech, attracting local, direct-sale buyers. Nextdoor: Excellent for reaching neighbors who can easily pick up items. OfferUp: Another user-friendly app for local furniture and electronics, say. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Tips for Maximizing Value & Efficiency: Bundle Items: Group small kitchen tools, office supplies, or decorative items to sell them faster. Pricing: Check "completed listings" on sites like eBay to set realistic, competitive prices. Clearance: Consider hosting a garage sale for a one-day purge, suggests. Safety: Meet in public places if possible, or ensure someone is home during local pickups. Donate/Junk Removal: Use charities like Goodwill for donations, and hire services for junk removal to handle items not sold, says. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Preparing the Home for Sale: Depersonalize: Remove personal items, religious items, and specific, distracting decorations. Don't Fix Everything: Avoid massive renovations; focus on cleaning and minor repairs. Lighting: Ensure the home is bright and clean, which appeals to a broader audience

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  sam (@Voxozz) reported 40 minutes ago

  @xskvki wait until they find out about craigslist rehoming pages… anyways, i hate this argument because byb dogs are much more likely to develop expensive health and/or behavior problems

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  Moe (@MoeNFL) reported 45 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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  Dianne 🌻 (@soaked2thebone) reported 45 minutes ago

  @EricLDaugh How was he gonna burn her house down from Turkey? Via a help wanted, experienced arsonist ad on her area's Craigslist?

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  Stover (@StoverLoves) reported 47 minutes ago

  @AntonioAdkins17 I just did this. Everything g worked for about a week until facebooks “AI” invented another fake reason to shut down my account Facebook no longer works. People need to start using Craigslist again.

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  peepeepoopoo (@DeepDishEnjoyer) reported 47 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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  Michael Girdley (@girdley) reported 49 minutes ago

  NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why nobody uses Craigslist anymore Craigslist once generated more than $1 billion a year in revenue with just 28 employees. To put that in perspective, that’s more revenue per employee than even Google at its peak. Its founder turned down billions of dollars in venture capital, refused to run advertising, and chose to serve as head of customer service rather than CEO. For years, that philosophy seemed brilliant. But just six years later, Craigslist had lost more than 70% of its revenue. This is the story of how one man’s unconventional principles and vision built an internet empire and how those same principles may have ultimately contributed to its decline. This is the rise and fall of Craigslist.

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  John Mac (@JohnMcCart87216) reported 50 minutes ago

  @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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  ghost of governments past (@ghostofgovspast) reported 51 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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  Michael (@michaelheredia) reported 54 minutes ago

  A marketplace in Colombia cannot just copy Craigslist or Zillow. The culture of buying, renting, and selling here is different all the way down. #Colombia #LatinAmerica

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  Michael McDoesntexist (@bbsmi7044) reported 55 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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  Todd S. Howard (@ToddHowardSigma) reported 55 minutes ago

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

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  Evans Wroten (@Evans_Wroten) reported 57 minutes ago

  PRAIRIEVILLE, LA MAN ARRESTED AFTER TRYING TO TRADE HIS WIFE FOR A USED BOAT, $400 CASH AND A BAG OF FROZEN CATFISH GONZALES, LA — Because apparently Craigslist was down, a 54-year-old man from Prairieville, LA wandered into a Bass Pro Shop yesterday morning and attempted to negotiate what he confidently described as a 'reasonable trade.' The store associate stated the man wanted to trade his wife of 23 years for a slightly questionable 14-foot aluminum fishing boat and $400 cash. Authorities say Rodney Thibodeau approached the boat counter at exactly, pointed at a boat priced at $4,200, and asked, 'What would it take to walk outta here with that one?' When the associate gave him the price, Ronnie countered with a package deal that included: His wife, Denise. $400 cash, and a bag of frozen catfish. Bold strategy. Shockingly, the employee did not immediately ring it up. Rodney then presented a printed document titled 'WIFE-FOR-BOAT TRANSFER AGREEMENT' (yes, in all caps, to ensure the legality of the contract). Highlights from the document include: A 3-day return policy. A notarization by his cousin who authorities stated is absolutely not a notary. A 'best features' section listing 'doesn’t snore very often, can clean a bass & siphon gas from a truck.' An 'as-is condition disclosure,' because he wanted to 'keep things honest.' Meanwhile, Denise was sitting in the truck outside, completely unaware she had been bundled into a clearance deal next to a boat with a hole in the hull. The Bass Pro employee did what any reasonable human would do: pretended to 'check with a manager' and immediately called law enforcement. When deputies arrived, things only got better: Denise reportedly responded with a deeply philosophical, 'Where the hell is he', followed by 'I'm going to kill him' Rodney insisted the trade was 'fair market value as the boat, again, did have a hole in it.' Both were taken into custody. Rodney for attempting to sell a human being and Denise for threatening ****** injury against Rodney and 7 other Bass Pro Shop associates. Denise has since filed for divorce, citing what legal experts are now calling 'the boat thing.' When asked for comment, Rodney stood by his decision, stating, 'Look man, it came with a trolling motor mount.' Denise, however, offered a slightly different perspective: 'I have a job. I have a home. I did not sign up to be traded like a dented canoe.' I have to believe there's a lesson somewhere in there, but I've not been able to suspend my disbelief long enough to figure out what it might be.