Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

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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%)

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Clermont-Ferrand	Errors	4 hours ago
Collinsville	Sign in	1 day ago
Newnan	Website Down	1 day ago
Créteil	Sign in	2 days ago
Tacoma	Sign in	3 days ago
Chicago	Errors	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Rigden Stollen (@IDoDeclare83) reported 7 seconds ago

  @cafreiman Nah. He became a millionaire with paypal, arguably an important problem. The a hundred-millionaire by doing hostile takeovers of companies solving important problems. He became a billionaire by becoming a lying hype man with great PR. But accountability is coming, soon.

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  iHerb (@iHerb) reported 3 minutes ago

  @trif11 Please be informed that your account is still active. Please go ahead and replace the new order if you still need the canceled items. To place a new order, please visit the "Orders" section and click on the "Reorder" button next to the canceled order. To prevent future payment issues, you might consider using a different payment method, as we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Apple Pay and PayPal.

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  李蝙蝠血 (@bat_bleed) reported 4 minutes ago

  @turdmaster97 FIX YOUR PAYPAL

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  Charlie (@charlie94029004) reported 4 minutes ago

  @LoudSolana In early 2000, shortly after buying the McLaren F1, Elon Musk was driving PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel along Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley on the way to a meeting with Sequoia Capital. When Thiel asked what the car could do, Musk replied, “Watch this,” floored the accelerator for a sharp lane change, and lost control. The powerful supercar spun out, hit an embankment, became airborne, and crashed heavily on the roadside. Miraculously, neither was seriously injured. The uninsured McLaren was badly damaged (with shattered glass, burst tires, and broken suspension), yet Musk later had it repaired at his own expense. In true startup-founder fashion, the pair then hitchhiked the rest of the way to their investor meeting.

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  Sergey Lapa ⚡ Building with AI (@Sergey_Lapa) reported 9 minutes ago

  Most people scroll past these tools every day. A few figured out they’re ATMs. Here’s what 2026 actually looks like for people who paid attention 🧵 [1/6] Most people see an AI chatbot. Maya sees $7,200/month. A 26-year-old from Kyiv figured out that every local business has a website that hasn’t been touched since 2019. No chat. No automation. No follow-up. She opens Claude. Builds a custom AI assistant for the business in 40 minutes. Books a call. Shows the demo live. They sign the same day. $400 setup. $600/month retainer. 12 clients. The businesses haven’t changed. She just showed them what they were missing. [2/6] Most people see a boring spreadsheet. James sees $9,500/month. A 31-year-old from Lisbon noticed that every e-commerce brand has the same problem — thousands of product descriptions written by someone who didn’t care. He built a Claude pipeline. Drops in a product CSV. Gets back 500 descriptions in 11 minutes. SEO-optimized. Brand-voiced. Done. Charges $800 per batch. $1,200 for rush. No employees. No office. Just a prompt and a PayPal link. [3/6] Most people see a Telegram group. Sofia sees $6,000/month. A 28-year-old from Belgrade watches on-chain wallets that move before anyone notices. Every morning she writes 3 paragraphs about what shifted overnight. 200 subscribers. $29/month each. Her tool cost: Claude API + a $6 server. She spends 45 minutes a day. The data was always public. She just started packaging it. [4/6] Most people see a podcast nobody asked for. Carlos sees $8,400/month. A 33-year-old from Mexico City realized that CEOs want to be on podcasts but hate cold emails. He uses AI to research 50 executives per week — their recent interviews, their talking points, their gaps. Then writes a hyper-personalized pitch for each one. Booking rate: 34%. He sells the booked appearances to podcast hosts at $600 each. 14 deals last month. [5/6] Most people see a language barrier. Nina sees $5,800/month. A 24-year-old from Warsaw figured out that Japanese, Korean and Arabic creators make incredible content — that nobody in the West ever sees. She runs it through AI translation + light editing. Reposts with credit. Builds the audience. Sells newsletter sponsorships at $400 per slot. Two slots per week. The content already existed. She just moved it. [6/6] The tools are free or close to it. The information is public. The opportunities are sitting on the same streets everyone walks past. The only difference between them and everyone else? They stopped waiting to feel ready. They just started. What’s stopping you from doing the same? ↓ Drop your skill below — I’ll tell you exactly how to monetize it with AI right now.

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  Marxon (@Marxon1134x) reported 11 minutes ago

  @PayPal Please verify your login system is functional or not. One moment it says my account doesn't exist the next it automatically recognizes the account and offers to reset the password. Something seems to be VERY wrong in your backend if it can't decide if I exist or not.

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  🔻PPC_2🔻 (@Lifeline4G_2lfe) reported 12 minutes ago

  We are having issues with @Stripe and are currently unable to accept donations paid by card. Please use PayPal for your donations till the issue is resolved.

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  Shams (@ShamsAmin56) reported 14 minutes ago

  @ShazaFK @CMShehbaz What's the point of posting? When your reach is terribly down? Anyway, when will PayPal come to Pakistan?

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  Nonnax7 (@53Nonna88) reported 14 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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  Anghellik (@Anghellik9) reported 18 minutes ago

  @WarOfFreedom @Rothmus He was famously pushed out of PayPal for his terrible ideas that he kept insisting on. One of them being "change the name to X" actually.

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  Brain Master (@Brainmaster) reported 19 minutes ago

  From nearly bankrupt to the world first trillionaire Elon Musk journey is the most insane real-life success story ever Let me break it down > Born in 1971 in South Africa Elon was a shy kid who got bullied hard > He loved reading coded his first game at 12 and dreamed of leaving Earth for Mars > In the 1990s dot com boom he left Stanford to launch Zip2 with his brother > They slept on office floors, got robbed, and nearly quit but sold it to Chicago Tribune for $307 million > Then he founded X com an online banking startup It merged with Confinity and became PayPal > EBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion Elon walked away with around $180 million > Most people would retired he bet it all on space and electric cars > In 2002 he founded SpaceX with the dream of making rockets reusable and colonizing Mars > Everyone called him crazy rockets exploded He lost millions > Three failed launches from 2006 to 2008 nearly bankrupted SpaceX > He was sleeping on factory floors borrowing money for rent and on the verge of having zero dollars > Same year tesla was dying the roadster wasn’t ready production was a nightmare and the 2008 financial crisis hit > Tesla needed $40 million just to survive > Elon invested his last money begged investors and personally saved it from bankruptcy > In 2008 he had no cash two companies almost dead, and a divorce he called it his worst year > But then everything changed spaceX finally launched a rocket to orbit in late 2008 > NASA gave them a $1.6 billion contract Tesla launched the Model S proved electric cars could be amazing, and went public in 2010 > From 2010 onward Tesla became the world’s most valuable car company > SpaceX launched satellites won NASA contracts invented reusable rockets and slashed space costs by 10 times > Elon launched Neuralink brain chips The Boring Company tunnels bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it to X > By 2021 he was a billionaire By 2023 the richest person on Earth > But the real trillionaire moment hit this week SpaceX just went public in the biggest IPO ever > SpaceX priced at $135 per share, raising $75 billion the largest IPO in history > The company got valued at $1.77 trillion, making it the world's most valuable private company before going public > Elon stake in SpaceX alone is worth over $400 billion after this IPO > This single event cemented him as the first human trillionaire in history He the first human trillionaire in history

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  💫Riot3D (@RIOTDOGG3D) reported 19 minutes ago

  @CosmosHexe Hey! Yes, theres a link to my server where you can verify your gumroad license via ticket, and it can be paid for via paypal or cashapp there and that’ll give you the role for the files!

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  🔞𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 (6/10) (@Maniac_Sinner00) reported 21 minutes ago

  I don't like telling my personal problems in the internet but today is pushing me to the edge yet again. For the past 2 weeks, I see my folks fighting back n forth and I try to distract on myself with labor work but I couldn't take it anymore. I crashed out for the 4th or 5th time this week. All I wanna do is commissions but I was always pulled over things that doesn't serve me than BUT FOR THEM. I had a huge *** argument and it was very verbal then it became physical. Honestly, Who the hell can function like this? I'm done pretending that everything in home is okay, plus I'm planning to run off temporarily. I want to have peace of mind. As much as I don't wanna beg in Twitter, I feel ashamed and embarrassed... So if you're kind enough, Please donate on my PayPal or Gcash, Anything helps.. I can't stop crying while I'm typing this, I feel utterly pathetic

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  Nick The FN Icon (@nickthefnicon) reported 22 minutes ago

  Your personal wealth is around an estimated $8-12 million. You are rich. You are "the problem". I'm going to send you my PayPal info and I expect you to send me a pretty substantial transfer, otherwise you're also a greedy selfish rich demon.

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  KHAN'✨ (@khanofkhans11_) reported 26 minutes ago

  In August 2008, Elon Musk was squatting in the wreckage of SpaceX’s failed 3rd Falcon 1 rocket. Both Tesla and SpaceX were on the verge of collapse. The global financial crisis was in full swing. This wasn’t a billionaire playing startup. He was effectively broke. After selling PayPal, Elon walked away with $176 million. He poured $100 million into founding SpaceX and tens of millions more into Tesla which he joined in 2004 and became CEO of in 2008. By mid-2008, he had burned through almost all of it. He was down to his last $35 million. He split that final $35M between the two companies instead of saving himself. He took loans from friends, slept on factory floors, and at one point said he ran out of cash entirely. Forbes wasn’t calling him a billionaire. Most people had never heard of him. Then came the turning point: • SpaceX’s 4th Falcon 1 launch succeeded on Sept 28, 2008 (first privately-funded rocket to reach orbit). • Tesla closed a desperate funding round days before bankruptcy. He bet everything when almost no one believed it would work. Today he’s the first Trillionaire while effectively making a lot of factory workers rich. Insane stuff.

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  Ryan Clandening (@Ryan_AZRealtor) reported 28 minutes ago

  @PayPal Your stock is down 90% and this is the garbage you’re pushing on social media? Sad

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  uxg z1nn (@z1nnfnbr) reported 28 minutes ago

  @amaxggs @stoopidFNbr @fluxuhfy He thinks its ok cuz aparently us waiting 2.5 weeks and rhen asking for an update and telling him to send using paypal was “to complicated” sadening asf that a “professional” money scrims server cant get their **** together

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  Brain Master (@Brainmaster) reported 29 minutes ago

  From nearly bankrupt to the world first trillionaire Elon Musk journey is the most insane real life success story ever Let me break it down > Born in 1971 in South Africa Elon was a shy kid who got bullied hard > He loved reading coded his first game at 12 and dreamed of leaving Earth for Mars > In the 1990s dot com boom he left Stanford to launch Zip2 with his brother > They slept on office floors, got robbed, and nearly quit but sold it to Chicago Tribune for $307 million > Then he founded X com an online banking startup It merged with Confinity and became PayPal > EBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion Elon walked away with around $180 million > Most people would retired he bet it all on space and electric cars > In 2002 he founded SpaceX with the dream of making rockets reusable and colonizing Mars > Everyone called him crazy rockets exploded He lost millions > Three failed launches from 2006 to 2008 nearly bankrupted SpaceX > He was sleeping on factory floors borrowing money for rent and on the verge of having zero dollars > Same year tesla was dying the roadster wasn’t ready production was a nightmare and the 2008 financial crisis hit > Tesla needed $40 million just to survive > Elon invested his last money begged investors and personally saved it from bankruptcy > In 2008 he had no cash two companies almost dead, and a divorce he called it his worst year > But then everything changed spaceX finally launched a rocket to orbit in late 2008 > NASA gave them a $1.6 billion contract Tesla launched the Model S proved electric cars could be amazing, and went public in 2010 > From 2010 onward Tesla became the world’s most valuable car company > SpaceX launched satellites won NASA contracts invented reusable rockets and slashed space costs by 10 times > Elon launched Neuralink brain chips The Boring Company tunnels bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it to X > By 2021 he was a billionaire By 2023 the richest person on Earth > But the real trillionaire moment hit this week SpaceX just went public in the biggest IPO ever > SpaceX priced at $135 per share, raising $75 billion the largest IPO in history > The company got valued at $1.77 trillion, making it the world's most valuable private company before going public > Elon stake in SpaceX alone is worth over $400 billion after this IPO > This single event cemented him as the first human trillionaire in history He's the first human trillionaire in history

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  DJ Castro (@thebleupaladin) reported 31 minutes ago

  @suzushiro333 PayPal checkout not working

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  azu 🪶🇳🇬 (@dxrkvampyre) reported 33 minutes ago

  I dont think ill open c*mms for a while... im having paypal issues with my bank unfortunately, and even when i do, ill most likely probably keep it limited to like. 3 slots at most cause im a full time uni student!

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  Mislav Beslic (@mislavbeslic) reported 43 minutes ago

  This is going to sound counterintuitive: But I genuinely believe going broke twice was the best thing that happened to my ecom career. Not in a motivational way but in a specific operational way. The first time I went broke I learned that you never operate without backup processors. Because I watched my only processor lock up $30k with zero warning and had to wait 120 days to get it back. That $30k was everything I had. That lesson is now permanently embedded in how I run both brands. The second time I learned that you can't trust suppliers blindly. Mine stopped communicating, started cutting corners, quality dropped, chargebacks spiked, and it cascaded into losing PayPal and Shopify Payments within a week of each other. Now I have quality control processes, backup suppliers, and I've physically visited our factory in China. I also learned that legal threats can come out of nowhere and end your brand overnight if you're not prepared. A large corporation filed a cease and desist and I couldn't afford lawyers to fight it. Didn't matter if the claim was fair or not. Without money to defend yourself, you lose by default. Now I have legal on standby. Every one of these scars is now a system in my business. Backup processors aren't a nice to have, they're because I know what happens without them. Supplier oversight isn't paranoia, it's because I've seen what happens when you trust blindly. Legal preparation isn't overcautious, it's because I've lost a brand to a letter I couldn't fight. People who've only experienced success are actually at a disadvantage at scale because they haven't been stress-tested. They don't know what breaks because nothing has broken yet. The first time something goes wrong at $500k/mo or $1M/mo, they have no scar tissue to draw from. No instinctive response built from experience. I know exactly what to do when a processor freezes because I've lived through it twice. I know exactly what to do when a supplier starts slipping because I've watched it destroy a brand. That pattern recognition can't be taught in a course. You either lived it or you didn't. What's the most expensive lesson you've learned so far? Because whatever it is, it's probably your biggest competitive advantage right now.

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  ЂП (@djordjijeno1) reported 47 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Also, almost all of your help tools require to be logged in. My problem is platform doesn't send me code to just sign in and make an account. Can you resolve my problem, you consider yourself a serious company?

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  Tony Martin (@RadioFreeTony) reported 48 minutes ago

  @johnennis @globeandmail He didn’t found PayPal. FSD? “During Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call today, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that unsupervised Full Self-Driving for consumer vehicles won’t arrive until Q4 2026 at the earliest — pushing the timeline yet again after years of broken promises.”

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  🥚🧁 (@Shellyswife) reported 53 minutes ago

  New roblox updates render me unable to do commisions anymore due to gamepass problems and now only ppl w roblox plus can comm me😢 im also not opening uo ichor comms so in closing comms till i get a paypal

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  XDG🐉 (@xdgjp) reported 54 minutes ago

  The Trajectory of Elon Musk: A Modern Industrial Miracle The Man Who Turned Dreams into Industries and Reached the Threshold of Becoming the First Trillionaire in Human History - 3 Chapter 5: X .com and PayPal: Putting Money on the Internet After Zip2, Musk turned his attention to finance. He believed that the internet would change not only the flow of information, but also the flow of money. Banking, remittances, payments, securities, and person-to-person transactions could all become faster, cheaper, and more convenient online. This led him to found X .com. The name also seems, in retrospect, like a precursor to his later renaming of Twitter as X. For Musk, “X” represented an unknown variable, a symbol that could become anything, and a broader concept for integrating the future infrastructure of finance, communications, and society. X .com later merged with Confinity and evolved into PayPal. PayPal spread rapidly, especially in online marketplaces such as eBay. It addressed the fear of sending money to strangers, the anxiety of sharing card information, and the inconvenience of online payments. PayPal provided a system that solved these problems at once. Payments are the bloodstream of the economy. When that bloodstream moved onto the internet, the speed of commerce changed. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for approximately $1.5 billion. Through this sale, Musk obtained even greater capital. For an ordinary entrepreneur, this might have been the point at which the next step was wealth preservation. He might have become a venture investor. He might have diversified into real estate or public equities. He could have chosen to live as a safe and extremely wealthy man. Musk chose the opposite path. Chapter 6: The Turning Point After the Sale of PayPal After the sale of PayPal, Musk had two paths before him. One was to preserve his wealth as a successful young millionaire. The other was to risk nearly everything on enormous dreams that almost no one yet seriously believed in. He chose the latter. That choice is the greatest dividing line between Elon Musk and many other successful people. He was not the type of person who became cautious because he had succeeded. He was the type of person who, because he had succeeded, wagered his success on the next impossibility. The problems he was looking at were not short-term profit opportunities. Earth’s energy problem. Dependence on fossil fuels. The risk of humanity being confined to a single planet. The high cost of space transportation. The danger of artificial intelligence. Urban traffic congestion. The separation between the human brain and computers. His businesses may appear unrelated, but in reality they are connected by one broad vision. Tesla exists for sustainable energy and transportation. SpaceX exists to make humanity a multiplanetary species. Starlink exists as a global communications network and a revenue source for space development. X exists to integrate information, finance, and social communication. xAI exists to secure leadership in the age of artificial intelligence. Neuralink exists to change the relationship between humans and AI. The Boring Company exists to move urban transportation underground. All of them are attempts to build the infrastructure of the future. Chapter 7: The Birth of SpaceX: The Rationality Behind the Madness of Mars In 2002, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX. His motivation was not simply that he wanted to build rockets. He believed that for humanity to survive over the long term, it needed a foothold beyond Earth. A massive asteroid, nuclear war, climate crisis, pandemic, or AI risk could destroy civilization. If even one of these threats ended civilization, the story of humanity would end. Therefore, humanity needed to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. That was his logic. Many people laughed. A private citizen was starting a rocket company. A startup was challenging a space industry dominated by NASA and enormous defense contractors. And its ultimate goal was the colonization of Mars. At the time, this sounded absurd. But Musk saw rockets not as mythology, but as a cost structure. The greatest reason rockets are expensive is that they are disposable. If airplanes were discarded after every flight, airfares would be astronomical. Therefore, rockets should also be made reusable. The logic was simple. The execution was extremely difficult. SpaceX began with Falcon 1. Start with a small rocket, and if it succeeds, scale up. But the early launches failed repeatedly. A rocket explodes over the smallest mistake. Software can be fixed and restarted. Rockets are different. When a launch fails, the vehicle, the fuel, the payload, and investor confidence all disappear at once. Still, SpaceX continued. With each failure, it collected data, revised the design, and moved on to the next launch. Chapter 8: His Encounter with Tesla: Making Electric Cars Anything but Boring In 2004, Musk made a major investment in Tesla Motors. Tesla had been founded by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and others with the aim of building electric vehicles. At the time, the image of electric vehicles was poor. Slow. Expensive. Short range. Uninspired design. A special car for a small group of environmentally conscious consumers. Musk disliked this assumption. His goal was not to create an “eco-car” that people drove out of sacrifice, but rather a fast, beautiful, desirable electric vehicle. The Tesla Roadster symbolized that idea. It showed that an electric vehicle could be fast and enjoyable as a sports car. The strategy was to prove the technology first at the high end, then expand through the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. It was a strategy that moved from luxury vehicles toward mass-market vehicles. Here again, Musk was not merely an environmental activist. He did not simply say, “Let us do something good.” He believed that if people created products others genuinely wanted, society would change as a result. People are not moved by lectures. They are moved by things that are fast, convenient, and beautiful. That was the core of Tesla’s strategy.

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  Johndwick411 (@johndwick411) reported 54 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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  🅱️ete oaks (@b0newalljackson) reported 54 minutes ago

  @_GrandExchange_ @kingbtc i got on ebay and paypal in 01 and boa gave me trouble with that so by the time i got into crypto they stopped bothering me. i hear horror stories about them but knock on wood never had any issues with either them or cb

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  NOTIME (@nielsyl) reported 55 minutes ago

  Dear Elon, Congratulations! You finally hit that $1 trillion mark. That is a truly absurd amount of money I’m pretty sure the human brain isn't even wired to comprehend that many zeros. Since you’ve officially broken the scale, I have a modest proposal: why not celebrate this historic achievement by making a random person-me—a billionaire? I know, I know, "tax implications" and "fiduciary responsibility." But imagine the absolute chaos and hilarity of the headline: "Elon Musk Gifts Random Person $1B Just Because He Could." It would be the ultimate flex. Plus, you’d still have $999 billion left over, which I’m told is still technically "a lot." I’m currently busy trying to make my PayPal work more efficiently, and having an extra billion in there might just be the technical solution I need to finally get everything running smoothly. Consider it an investment in the most entertaining social experiment of the century. Best.

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  S-A-Sme (@sixerNotBot) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Sparkle6892 @RichardLNewby3 How does Tesla, SpaceX and PayPal benefit or the world's problems???

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  ꒰ঌ Mønø_xP ۶ৎ (@Mono_Klown) reported 60 minutes ago

  WHAT IS THE ******* POINT OF A CUSTOMER SUPPORT PAGE FOR BEING LOCKED OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT IF YOU HAVE TO LOGIN TO USE IT PAYPAL?????????