So much for my after-lunch job search and profile lurking.
A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, LinkedIn suffered a similar fate on Wednesday, as the social media platform for business professionals went down.
“An error has occurred,” read a message across the site shortly after 1 p.m. PST. On the company’s status page, a message said that LinkedIn was “continuing to investigate the issue.”
Update: The site came back online for me before I could even post this story to Tumblr.
The Microsoft-owned platform boasts about 1 billion members worldwide. Half of them tried to add me as a connection this week.
Many more simply turned to a functioning social media site — X?! — to flex their comedic chops with the usual memes: