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	3 months ago
Juneau	Errors	3 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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  🔥 QRYZSTOS ALI (Metal Q)🔥 (@Quincinerate) reported 11 seconds 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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  Skeyromie 🐦 (@Skeyromie) reported 26 seconds ago

  Am I the Ahole for refusing to pay my parents rent, moving out, and going completely ghost on them? ​Used a different account to post because some of my extended family members follow my main, and frankly, I don’t need the extra drama right now. ​I 22 male recently graduated from college and managed to land a decent, entry-level job in my field. Because the housing market is an absolute nightmare, my parents offered to let me move back into my childhood bedroom "to help me save up for a down payment or a place of my own." I was incredibly grateful. I figured I'd be able to stack some serious cash, pay off some student loans, and be out of their hair in a year. ​Well, the "honeymoon phase" lasted exactly two weeks. ​On the third week, my dad sat me down at the kitchen table with a literal spreadsheet. He informed me that since I was now a working adult, I needed to "contribute to the household." He demanded $800 a month in rent, plus a 1/3 share of the utilities and groceries. ​To put this in perspective: $800 plus utilities is essentially what it costs to split a decent 2-bedroom apartment with a roommate in my city. When I pointed out that I was living in a tiny bedroom with a twin bed, sharing a bathroom with my teenage sibling, and living under their strict house rules (curfews, chores, asking permission to have friends over), my mom chimed in. She said if I lived anywhere else, I’d be paying market rate anyway, so I might as well "keep the money in the family." ​I tried to compromise. I offered $300 a month plus doing my own grocery shopping and taking over yard duty. They refused, claiming I was being entitled and disrespectful. My dad literally said, "Our roof, our rules, our rates." ​So, I played nice for a month while I secretly scoured Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. I found a great apartment with two roommates from college. The rent is actually less than what my parents were demanding, and I don't have a 11:00 PM curfew.

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  Perry Jia (@perryzjia) reported 5 minutes ago

  3/N But here's the thing: Craigslist ads get you applicants. They don't get you world-class data. That part comes down to how you treat the people collecting it. My management philosophy is simple: treat people like people. More precisely: - pay people well - make them feel like part of the mission - trust them and believe in their potential

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  Todd S. Howard (@ToddHowardSigma) reported 9 minutes ago

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

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  𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐳.🦋 (@tessuuh) reported 10 minutes ago

  my dog is gonna pull my pregnant *** down the stairs one day and that is the day i’m gonna sell her on craigslist for $5 dead ***

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  UnderDuress77 (@Under_Duress77) reported 11 minutes ago

  @GambelerQuail Some rescues & shelters are too selective and some not enough I'll admit to being a part of the problem I got mine off Craigslist because no rescue would consider my hypoallergenic needs bc I didn't have a fence I dont NEED a fence the dog is on lead & accompanied at all times!

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  The Automotivist (@_automotivist) reported 14 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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  LeftyKitty (@Lefty_Kitty) reported 18 minutes ago

  @PieterVand37940 @viking_boer This is a very solvable issue. There are cheap, still working, washers on Craigslist. We need one guy with a pickup in each city and one American who can swing a used washer for each Amerikaner family who needs one. I have a truck.

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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 21 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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  ryan (@kanlu_07) reported 23 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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  kyrox (@kyroxxxq) reported 24 minutes ago

  THIS GUY BOUGHT A USED MAC PRO FOR $800 AND TURNED IT INTO A $12,000 AI SUPERCOMPUTER. He spent three weeks completely upgrading the machine off Craigslist. He threw in 192GB RAM, 8TB NVMe storage, an Afterburner card, and an eGPU enclosure. Total cost for all upgrades: $1,270. Total build cost: $2,070. An equivalent workstation ordered directly from Apple costs over $12,000. The performance jump was immediate. Video export times dropped from 18 minutes down to just 4 minutes. It now runs three massive local LLMs simultaneously without breaking a sweat. With 192GB of memory, models that usually require enterprise cloud servers now run completely locally. He is saving $400 to $600 every single month on API bills alone. The entire machine fully paid for itself in under four months. Apple sells you the brand—the used market sells you the raw hardware.

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  Billy Dickson 🪐💫🌕🫧 (@Billy_Dickson) reported 28 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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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 28 minutes ago

  A company with 30 employees made $1 billion a year. Not Google. Not Facebook. Craigslist. At its peak, revenue per employee was 10-20x Google's. The founder did everything "wrong": rejected billions from VCs, ran zero ads, and demoted himself to customer support. Then within 6 years, revenue crashed 70%+. Here’s the real story. • Started as a simple email list in 1995 by Craig Newmark, an IBM programmer. • Friends asked to post jobs and rentals. He built a bare-bones website — intentionally ugly, like a community bulletin board. • Zero marketing spend. Network effects did all the work. • In 1999, he made it a for-profit company but kept 99% free. Charged only for some job posts in a few cities. • In 2000, he stepped down as CEO to become a customer service rep. He didn't like managing people. • The result: ~30 employees, ~$1B annual revenue (reportedly, around 2018). For comparison, Google's per-employee revenue was ~$1.2M; Facebook's ~$1.6M. Craigslist's was $20-35M. • They rejected every opportunity to make more money. Every niche they dominated was later turned into a billion-dollar company by someone else: • Jobs → LinkedIn • Housing → Zillow • Goods → eBay, Facebook Marketplace • Then crises hit: • 2004: eBay bought 30% of Craigslist without founders' consent. Legal battle followed. Craigslist converted to an LLC to avoid shareholder profit demands. • 2009: "Craigslist killer" — a medical student used the site to commit murder. The adult services section, worth $36M/year, was shut down. • Mobile revolution: Craigslist stayed ugly and desktop-only. Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016, fully mobile, with real names. It surpassed 1 billion users by 2021. • Revenue reportedly dropped from ~$1B (2018) to ~$300M (2023). A 70% decline. The irony? The same principles that built Craigslist killed it: • 99% free → no money to modernize • No investment → no strategic pivot • Anti-commercial → picked apart by specialists Craig Newmark today lives in an apartment, owns no car, keeps pigeons. He's donated over $500M to journalism — the very industry his site helped destroy. This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of choices. You can live by your values and be comfortable. But markets don't wait. Craigslist's decline was a choice. Takeaway: If you don't evolve, you get eaten. Security and growth rarely coexist. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #Craigslist #BusinessLessons

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  ًًً (@thatprettydick) reported 29 minutes ago

  i think body count matters when it comes to your environment. i know some men have hooked up with at least 100+ ****** off jackd, craigslist, grindr… he’s messed with majority of the city lmao that’s a problem. nobody wants you and that used up hole beyond just *******.

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  YellowHibiscus (@mynoyb) reported 31 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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  BobbyBouquet (@PrioritiezPacks) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Cant_Be_Rated Black uncs shut down tumblr with "pretty yung thang" candid pics of over developed teens every ******* where while simultaneously shutting down craigslist personals with blatant, low effort, underage pimping. Even your babies' birthday parties have twerkers and strippers.

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  Bryan Shankman (@BryanShankman) reported 33 minutes ago

  We started working with a mobile brake repair company in Cincinnati last year. @DanielG__83 runs it himself -Google, Facebook, and increasingly ChatGPT-driven traffic bringing in leads at all hours. The math was breaking down. He was paying for leads that were going cold because he couldn't respond fast enough. His words: "God forbid a customer texts me at 7 at night and I'm done working for the day. I'm not gonna respond, and by 8 the next morning I'm gonna forget." Plus every lead - high-value brake job or $40 Craigslist tire kicker - took the same amount of his time to qualify. Here's exactly what our AI agent does for him now: When a customer submits a form on his website, texts the business line, or comes in through Google or Facebook ads at literally any hour: - The agent responds within 60 seconds over SMS acknowledging the specific issue - brake pads, rotors, calipers, whatever the customer mentioned - Qualifies the lead: vehicle year/make/model, exact service package, address for the mobile visit, urgency - Filters out tire kickers automatically - price shoppers looking for a $40 Craigslist special never make it to the owner's desk - Books the appointment directly if the lead is ready to go - Delivers a fully-qualified, ready-to-schedule lead sitting on his desk by 8 AM - address, vehicle, package, everything What's happened since: - 25-30 additional jobs booked per month in peak season. All AI. - Start to finish At a $500 average ticket, that's up to $15,000/month in new revenue he wasn't capturing before - His receptionist now pulls a monthly report of every job closed through the AI in dollars - the number is tracked, not estimated - After-hours leads at 10 PM, 11 PM, midnight are handled the moment they come in. - No more forgetting by morning He's not answering tire-kicker texts anymore. That entire category of work is gone from his day Most home service and mobile service operators think their bottleneck is more leads. It usually isn't. It's the leads they already paid for going cold because nobody responded in the 15 minutes that mattered. AI shouldn't replace your judgment on jobs. But there's no reason a $500 brake job should sit unanswered in a text thread overnight because the owner was asleep. @leadtruffle

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  Stephen Davis (@scdavis14633) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Ravious101 Learned, never list for free. Put some money on it and let them talk you down. People are leary of free stuff. Next time go craigslist, Facebook is full of crazy people when it comes to buying.

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  KDB 👁️ controversial woman appreciator (@httpswebpage) reported 38 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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  Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) reported 38 minutes ago

  When I was graduating college, I could have taken an $80K/yr job in 2012. Instead, I started a business carrying boxes up and down spiral staircases, driving a beat up $1,500 cargo van I bought off Craigslist. I wasn't passionate about pickup and delivery student storage. I just saw a need from other students who were willing to pay me to do this work. I traded my time for money and built the skills, capital, and network I needed to get to the next level. It's hard to imagine where I'd be if I never took that leap.

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  Ducky (@insultduck) reported 39 minutes ago

  This is absolutely correct. In fact, it's a good lesson for when you start dating someone new. Don't go looking in his or her web browser history or anything like that. Just open his or her computer, pull up any site with ads (like yahoo, or reddit, or facebook, or youtube... even Amazon... anything really) and pay attention to the ads that are displaying. They're being suggested because he or she has searched for, or interacted with content, about those topics in the past. Wanna know if your new boyfriend is a crossdresser? Pull up Amazon and see if he's being suggested ******* and butt plugs. Lol. Personally, I love all the famous dudes who get caught with tranny porn on their phones, and instead of simply admitting that they think a man who is pretending to be a ***************** is hot, they start babbling about how the stuff just magically pops up on their phones. This happened to Alex Jones years ago. He showed a screenshot of his phone on one of his shows and he had tabs open to hardcore tranny **** scenes. Then, he ridiculously tried to deny it. Lol. I had started dating a new girl many years ago and was using her laptop while staying at her place one night. I kept seeing various ads for discreet encounters, Ashley Madison, stuff like that. Did some digging and uncovered her long history of giving anonymous blow jobs to dudes on craigslist for free back when they still had personal ads. Ended that one pretty quick. There's a huge difference between a girl with a high body count, and one allowing herself to be throated by any random dude who wants to do so. Nothing wrong with doing some investigating when you start dating a new guy or gal. You shouldn't expect your crush to be perfect. But, you don't want him or her to be a totally broken individual either.

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  Donald Wilhelm (@donwnyc1979) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Real_Ames @GigaBeers oh No... Shut it down. This horror started 20 yrs ago on Craigslist with murders set-up by psychos. It's starting up again, God please make it Stop.

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  Novara Media (@novaramedia) reported 44 minutes ago

  Ebay has been ordered to pay a $55.7m settlement to an American couple over a harassment campaign by company executives which included doxing, online threats and the delivery of live cockroaches to their home. The orchestrated campaign, which lasted for two months in the summer of 2019, was waged against husband and wife David and Ina Steiner by six eBay employees and one contractor. The couple were targeted after posting criticism of eBay’s corporate and policy changes on their newsletter and website EcommerceBytes, which is popular among eBay sellers, Wired reported. The campaign began with anonymous threats via Twitter DMs before ramping up to malicious deliveries to the Steiner family home. Items sent to the couple included pornography, a bloody pig mask, pests such as fly larvae, live spiders and cockroaches, a book about grieving a spouse and a funeral wreath. Ebay employees had the Steiners trailed in a rented van and posted fake classified ads on Craigslist advertising a ******* party, a ********* and a yard sale with their home address. After the police were contacted, the harassment campaign tailed off as those involved sought to conceal their actions. Former eBay CEO Devin Wenig told Wired via a representative that he was “saddened” by the harassment. He has continually asserted that he had no knowledge of the specific actions taken by the group who carried out the campaign. Wenig is alleged to have given former eBay chief communications officer Steve Wymer the order to “take her down,” in reference to Ina Steiner. However, his lawyers claim he was referring to a communications plan and not any criminal behaviour, a claim supported by court documents according to Wired. Six former eBay staff and a contractor were charged with taking part in the campaign in 2020. The Steiners followed with a civil suit the following year. The case has now reached a final settlement which will award the Steiners more than $46.15m from eBay, $2m from former CEO Devin Wenig, $500,000 from former executive Wendy Jones, and $50,000 from former executive Steve Wymer. David Steiner told Wired: “We were really adamant that this type of behaviour by a Fortune 500 corporation didn’t go unchecked.” In a published statement, eBay said that what the Steiners were subjected to was “wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened,” and that the company had strengthened its policies, controls and training since the incident.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 45 minutes ago

  Car shopping means checking CarGurus, AutoTrader, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and more. Built CarMesh to fix that. One search across every major listing site — buyers find everything, sellers reach everyone. Bridging buyers and sellers. Live soon.

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  Cúper Y. Ashraf (@Cuuper22) reported 51 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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  brunson burner (@Tallox_25) reported 53 minutes ago

  I've made a considerable amount of money on craigslist idk what I'd ever do if craigslist went down. Might be the most legit and useful site of its kind.

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  Shaf (@Shafpocalypse) reported 54 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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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 54 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. She sounded just like an old white lady. I was so impressed 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 turn, it saved me. It made me a believer again.

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  John Deez (@J_Nitad) reported 56 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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  Mary (@supergreak) reported 58 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.