LINKEDIN is currently down for many users in what seems to be a mysterious outage.
According to the website DownDetector, there have been more than 5,000 reports of the popular networking site being down.
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Is LinkedIn Down?
LinkedIn appeared to be down for many users, as of around !0.30am on Monday, June 6.
According to DownDetector, approximately 76% of accounts that were reporting issues were reporting that it was from the website’s end,
Approximately 22% of accounts that were reporting issues reported that it was a server issue.
According to a user map of the issue, it seemed to be affecting users in Washington D.C., New York City, and Boston more so than in other areas.
It was also affecting users in the United Kingdom.
How are LinkedIn users reacting to the platform being down?
On Twitter, many users found some form of humor in the outage, although others were clearly annoyed.
User @smartin tweeted: “LinkedIn is down. Please send emergency motivational messages.”
User @negroprogrammer tweeted: “linkedin down?? how am i supposed to assess the value of a person now?”
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Other users accused the networking and recruiting site of slipping out early on a summer holiday.
Many, however, simply wanted to know what was going on.
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What caused the outage?
It seems as though the issues, which are now seemingly resolved, were caused by a DNS certificate issue on the company’s server.
This is a back-end website issue and was likely caused by mistake while the company was updating its site.
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