Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal 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 Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (46%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Mayen	Sign in	3 hours ago
Aubais	Errors	3 hours ago
Harrow	Sign in	4 hours ago
Clermont-Ferrand	Errors	19 hours ago
Collinsville	Sign in	2 days ago
Newnan	Website Down	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Skoot (@Skoot9191) reported 22 seconds ago

  @PayPal your reps are absolutely useless. I shouldn’t have to call 6 times to resolve an issue

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  David H Knott Jr (@DHKJR3) reported 32 seconds ago

  @Testsubject28 @ErikVoorhees In America, one thing is successful, the brilliance of Wall Street is they start cloning it, to keep cost down. McDonald’s you get Burger King Domino’s you get Pizza Hut. PayPal started something. Tesla started something. spaceX started something no cancer cure so what

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  notfunwithme (@notfunwithme) reported 3 minutes ago

  2/ Back then I moderated a Minecraft server. Another server kept attacking ours, and our owner found out the guy was paying for the attacks with PayPal or Bitcoin. We sat in Skype trying to figure out what Bitcoin even was. I was too young to understand it, but it stayed in my head.

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  Hey Jay (@JJeffrey100) reported 3 minutes ago

  @beffybadbelly You can be mad at him for how he chooses to spend his money. I have no problems with that. I'd sign the giving pledge if I was in his shoes. But vilifying someone who's changed the world just because he was successful isn't logical. Millenia of economic theory and case proves we have the right incentive structure for growth. Without him, you wouldn't have paypal, electric cars, space internet, blind people seeing, no traffic in Vegas tunnels, and myriad other things. I'm OK he's a trillionaire.

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  Ganesh (@inSGKumar) reported 6 minutes ago

  @avataram Did you personally invest in PayPal in that time, or was it the fund's money? Still hold them RSUs - worth down from recent highs, but "this kaali perungaya dappa has lost original aroma"!

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  comicranch (@comicranch99430) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal The fact that you have a link for help but the WORST Customer Service is beyond comical, your service blocks and restricts accounts on simple transcribe but allows 1000's of purchases with no limitations, trying to resolve issues is useless with this service

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  wow (@timcaooo) reported 9 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal I have been having many problems with my dispute and appeal which got denied against a seller using a tracking number scam. I am informing in different channels that I will be placing a complaint with the BBB and CFPB, and possibly a US Attorney.

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  cademann (@AirButBackwards) reported 12 minutes ago

  @LasagneWest @TheSlick001 @esjesjesj Tesla earned him his billionaire status, and Tesla employees, notably at Fremont, faced many issues, with high injury rates, discrimination, etc. he also got a lot of money from paypal, taking credit from the other people who did most of the work and lots of govt subsidies

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  Johndwick411 (@johndwick411) reported 14 minutes ago

  @DissentFu Musk created value, PayPal, EVs, reusable rockets,that employs people and grew the economy. Your situation has nothing to do with him. Blaming billionaires is just cope to avoid owning your choices. At 52 you can still fix habits and skills, but resentment guarantees you’ll stay exactly where you are.

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  We happy few, we band of brothers (@diginthehole) reported 16 minutes ago

  @RepJayapal And you have produced exactly what? Ever? No EV cars, no paypal, no rockets, no starlink? Sit down.

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  Babbage | BRC100 (@ProjectBabbage) reported 17 minutes ago

  @BTFDGreg @steverabinow You keep trying to force this into a confession that BSV “contradicts Bitcoin.” I don’t accept that frame. A better description is that the technology is growing up. Early Bitcoin solved an important problem: how to make direct digital payments without routing every transaction through a financial intermediary that can impose chargebacks, custody, account control, and platform permission. That remains essential. BSV keeps keys, signatures, proof of work, public validation, direct payments, low fees, and user-controlled wallets. But real commercial systems also have to answer questions early cypherpunk rhetoric often waved away: What happens after theft? What happens after fraud? What happens when a transaction is part of an attack? What happens when property is disputed? What happens when courts, businesses, insurers, estates, exchanges, and ordinary users enter the picture? BSV’s answer is not “bring back PayPal.” It is: preserve direct digital cash for ordinary use, while adding a defined legal framework for exceptional disputes. That is not dishonesty. That is maturity. You can prefer a harsher model where technically valid possession wins forever, even after theft or attack. That is a coherent philosophy. But it is not the only honest reading of digital cash, and it is not obviously the best foundation for real-world commerce. “Satoshi’s Vision” is not scripture worship. It is a design thesis: scalable peer-to-peer electronic cash, stable rules, useful transactions, proof of work, honest nodes, low fees, and commerce that can actually function at scale. BSV is trying to build that in the grown-up world where law, property, fraud, and accountability exist. You can call that a different vision. Fine. But the train is moving toward usable systems: wallets, signatures, payments, identity, privacy, overlays, micropayments, apps, and lawful digital property. And soon you will find that it is leaving the station. These points are what real-world enterprise and commercial builders should evaluate.

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  Macro Bombastic (@MacroBombastic) reported 18 minutes ago

  @BSCNews @PayPal Tether and Circle have the network effect locked down pretty tight, but never say never in crypto, mate

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  Matt Doll (@Mattdoll) reported 23 minutes ago

  Hey @braintree, @PayPal_Open, @PayPal For an unknown reason. Our credit card settlements have stopped this week. It's impossible to reach a human in customer support. How do we fix this today?

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  FIA✞ (@inioluwavibes) reported 27 minutes ago

  @greengizie @akintollgate I get your point. Once trust is broken it’s hard to go back. That’s why many people now keep alternatives like @Vbanapp around for international transfers, virtual cards and cross border payments instead of relying solely on PayPal.

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  FX Team_Nasdaq|S&P500|US stock pick Trades (@DavidKWilliams) reported 31 minutes ago

  Michael Burry is leaning into two hated tech names: $PYPL and $ADBE. The market has been attending PayPal’s funeral for years. But while everyone keeps calling the business dead, PayPal has been aggressively buying back its own stock. That matters. When sentiment is this negative and the company is retiring shares at scale, the setup can become very interesting if fundamentals simply stabilize. He also added to $ADBE, calling it an obvious deep-value opportunity. Adobe still has elite software margins, with gross margins near historical highs. The market is treating it like AI destroyed the business. But the numbers still look like one of the highest-quality software franchises in the world. This is classic Burry: buying hated names when the narrative is ugly, valuation is compressed, and the business is not nearly as broken as the market thinks. $PYPL $ADBE

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  Derrick Byford (@DerrickByford) reported 34 minutes ago

  @AllyFogg Brivael Le Pogam 📷 @brivael Translated from French I've got the ultimate, infallible, instant IQ test. If a guy hits me with that Elon Musk emerald mine line, it's over. NPC confirmed. The brain shut down somewhere in 2019 and nobody's come to flip the lights back on since. Because look at what the actual file says. Not the meme, the file. In 1986, Errol trades a small plane (a Cessna) for a share of emeralds produced by three little mines owned by a guy in Zambia. No company, no contract, no deed, nothing. An informal, off-the-books deal that collapses in 1989. The same year Elon lands in Canada with $2,500 in his pocket and ends up with $100,000 in student debt. And they want me to believe that funded Tesla and SpaceX nearly twenty years later. Emeralds traded in the bush in the '80s that magically turn into reusable rockets in 2008. The real seed capital? Zip2 then PayPal. Documented, public, verifiable in thirty seconds. So when someone repeats the emerald mine bit, they're not talking about Elon. They're talking about themselves. Go read his bio, and the hoax jumps right out at you. You've got exactly four possibilities. Either it's a moron who's never checked a source in their life. Or it's a corrupt type who knows and lies anyway. Or it's a lazy *** who copy-pasted a meme without lifting a finger. Or it's just a guy who just rolled a fat joint and is regurgitating whatever's floating on his TL. In every case, it's not an argument. It's a confession.

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  The Zeno Report (@ZenoReport) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Spybef0rey0ubuy People are trolling and underestimating Mr. Burry way too much these days. They forget no matter people's opinion he's still a legendary Investor, Trader, and Contrarian Analyst. ADBE is a solid business which might be misunderstood by the market now but in a year the picture will paint itself. I don't personally like PayPal. One time I transferred $800 to my friend in Australia while visiting, and they charged me $60-70 in fees for it... So, from that moment I knew this business has a deep problem, and this happened in 2023 so no wonder the downfall.

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  Nonnax7 (@53Nonna88) reported 38 minutes ago

  @DissentFu Start PayPal while sleeping on friends couches because no money. Start a co when you sell PP to make rockets. Get to point after many failures, 1 more meant shutting down business. Start Tesla, Boring Co tunneling, Starlink sats & Neuralink which help the disabled.

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  WheelYield (@WheelYield) reported 40 minutes ago

  @ZaidJilani This isn’t inefficiency, it’s the market doing exactly its job. It rewards people who create, innovate, and blow up the status quo. The difference? Everyone else on that list disrupted one industry and coasted. Musk did it three times: PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Payments, autos, aerospace — all flipped. The market isn’t broken for paying up on the rarest thing in business: proving it wasn’t luck. Calling that ‘dystopia’ is just resentment wearing an economics costume.

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  Stanphyl Capital 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@StanphylCap) reported 40 minutes ago

  Remember, when Musk ran PayPal it was losing a ton of money and they fired him. He is historically a TERRIBLE CEO. His entire myth is based on unmerited, bubble-level market caps. When the tide goes out, blubber-boy will be swimming very naked!

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  Political Punk (@actingliketommy) reported 41 minutes ago

  @MikeBenzCyber Elon didn't create paypal or tesla and he couldn't have done any of that other **** without all the workers AND OUR TAX MONEY. I mean, we realize you need to suck down his **** and all because you're desperately trying to level jump into their crowd but get real, dweeb

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  greg fury𓍊 (@eeyoregregore) reported 45 minutes ago

  messages are down, I'll be back! plz feel free to throw cashmoney at the birthday whöre😝 (me) ($paywacket on ca/vnmo) (ask about paypal)

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  Joshua Almeida (@Josh_Almeida) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Heccles94 You should create PayPal, sell it. Than invest/ create other companies which the value is determined my the free market. Than sell all your ownership/holdings to than give all your money away that you worked for, to solve problems that governments take trillions in tax dont solve

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  . (@aesopcqrl) reported 52 minutes ago

  @willowkills even if go fund me is slow I'm pretty sure she could have dropped some others ways (paypal or a direct way to transfer to her bank money) yes accident happens, but I'm mad she's not trying anything like she's old enough to know better

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  SKULLZI 💀🎮 (@SkullziTV) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Steve9418 They have issues with PayPal apparently so can't use that lol. Sending the money is an option though. They don't have family they trust either unfortunately.

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  axolotl is going to vibecamp (@calxolotl) reported 55 minutes ago

  @PayPal I tried to contact them and got an AI chatbot that is broken and could only output "I'm sorry, I'm not able to help with that right now. Let me connect you with the right support to assist you further." but cannot actually connect me with anything. (2/3)

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  ✦𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐎𝐘✦ (@SimoSimo756214) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello, my PayPal account I am trying to link my US bank account, but I am receiving a system error message. Can you please check if there is a security block on my account regarding this linking process

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  James Jnr (@chijames__) reported 57 minutes ago

  Elon Musk wasn’t born a trillionaire. He sold a game he made as a kid. He taught himself programming. He built Zip2 and sold it. He co-founded PayPal and sold it. Instead of retiring rich, he put most of his money into Tesla and SpaceX when both companies were struggling. At one point, he was so close to losing everything that Tesla and SpaceX were on the brink of collapse. Most people see the trillion dollars. Few people see the years of risk, failure, criticism, sleepless nights and near-bankruptcy that came before it. The lesson isn’t that you should chase money. The lesson is that extraordinary wealth often follows extraordinary value creation, relentless persistence and the willingness to bet on yourself when nobody else will. Build skills. Solve problems. Take calculated risks. Stay in the game longer than everyone else. That’s how fortunes are made.

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  valerie (@upayval) reported 57 minutes ago

  @broke4bri are u aware ur full name is on ur paypal and that a cybertip for CSE is being sent out with that name in it if this account isn’t taken down?

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  Rizwan Virk (@Rizstanford) reported 59 minutes ago

  Sorry to every self help account on X giving the cliched startup advice "never give up" today because Elon became the world's first trillionaire. Short version: not everyone is Elon Musk after PayPal, and not everyone should stick with a failing startup/product/model no matter what! Long version:The real lesson is more complicated than the cliche "never give up", which is terrible advice. Sometimes, taking feedback and advice from others is important. At other times, you should ignore the advice of others. The key is to know when to listen and when to be stubborn. Often, giving up on a startup that's failing is the best thing you can do for your mental and financial health. I know founders who suffered both mental and financial problems by "not giving up" when it was clear that their idea wasn't going to work, and they simply delayed their failure (making it worse!. Other times, when you are clear minded about the reasons why things are failing, you can make adjustments and get past the failures to success, like Elon did. But I hate to be the one to break it to you: not everyone is Elon musk and not everyone has made hundreds of million of dollars from their previous startups that they can keep going when things aren't working. Question 1: is the market fundamentally sound (I.e. if you eventually build it right, will people buy i?t). Or are there structural reasons why the market is early and it will catch up to you? Question 2: are there sound science/engineering reasons why the product can work if you keep going? If answer to both is yes, keep going. If not, pivot to something else or give up. For more on why cliches don't work in startups, read my book Startup Myths and Models: What You Won't Learn Business School 🔗 👇🏽