Buffer outage, August 2026: Issues with publishing posts to Pinterest
Buffer reported and resolved an incident: Issues with publishing posts to Pinterest. It lasted 1 minute.
OKResolved
From Buffer's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Impact
- none
- Investigating
- Identifiednot posted
- Monitoringnot posted
- Resolved
Why it happened
Buffer has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
We are aware that earlier today, Wednesday 5th August, at roughly 9am UTC, there was a temporary issue that impacted the publishing success rates of Pinterest. It does appear that this was an issue directly with Pinterest's API, and it was a transient issue that recovered by 9:50am UTC. Publishing success for posts from Buffer to Pinterest are back to normal levels now. If you noticed any of your posts from earlier today to Pinterest have failed, retrying them again in Buffer should allow them to post normally. We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused by this incident.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Buffer's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
We are aware that earlier today, Wednesday 5th August, at roughly 9am UTC, there was a temporary issue that impacted the publishing success rates of Pinterest. It does appear that this was an issue directly with Pinterest's API, and it was a transient issue that recovered by 9:50am UTC. Publishing success for posts from Buffer to Pinterest are back to normal levels now. If you noticed any of your posts from earlier today to Pinterest have failed, retrying them again in Buffer should allow them to post normally. We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused by this incident.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 1 minute.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
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