Buffer outage, November 2026: Issue with [Feature]
Buffer is reporting an incident: Issue with [Feature]. It is still open.
OKWorking normally
From Buffer's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Status
- investigating
- Duration
- 36.6 hours so far
- Impact
- major
- Investigating
- Identifiednot yet
- Monitoringnot yet
- Resolvednot yet
Why it happened
Buffer has not given a cause yet. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Buffer's official status page, in their words.
- investigating
We’re investigating an issue with media processing that is affecting the "Publish Now" action. Our team is working to resolve it, and we’ll share more as we learn more. We’re sorry for the disruption and appreciate your patience.
What this means for a business
- Pause scheduled campaigns if you can; otherwise they queue and send when it is back.
- Reply to urgent customers from your normal mailbox.
- Form leads and chats are usually kept and delivered late, not lost.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
Other Buffer incidents
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- Degraded Performance, resolved after 12 minutes
- Buffer Service Disruption, resolved after 3.4 hours
- Issue Connecting & Refreshing YouTube, resolved after 27.1 hours
- Issue Publishing Video Posts to Substack, resolved after 2 minutes
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