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Venmo And PayPal Are Down For Some, According To Monitor
- On Thursday, Oct. 16, Venmo and PayPal experienced service issues, with users reporting problems on Down Detector around 11 a.m. ET.
- Because the platforms share infrastructure, support accounts posted that teams were working and `We understand the inconvenience you are facing at the moment.`
- Many users posted on X that they could not log in or the main dashboard would not load, and Down Detector showed reports approaching 10,000, at 9,452 as of 12:11 PM ET.
- Down Detector data indicate signs of recovery while Venmo still had over 6,500 reports, and PayPal's status page reported services operational at about 12:30 p.m., though some issues persisted.
- At about 12:25 p.m. ET, some users reported partial Venmo access with empty feeds and slow searches, while posts on X, formerly Twitter, showed ongoing complaints and others learned of the outage from other services.
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At the well-known payment service Paypal on Thursday evening (16 October) there were apparently failures in payment and registration. Now the problems seem to be fixed.
'Technical issue' affecting thousands of PayPal, Venmo users is resolved, company says
(KRON) – A representative for PayPal said a "technical issue" was to blame after thousands of PayPal and Venmo users reported having difficultly accessing their accounts on Thursday. The issues reportedly impacted users' ability to log into the online payment platforms. The payment apps started to see spikes in reported login issues sometime after 8 a.m. PDT. An hour later, nearly 9,600 complaints had been reported to DownDetector among PayPal u…
Are Venmo and PayPal down? Users report issues on October 16 for payment services
Both Venmo and PayPal saw a spike in user-reported issues on Down Detector on Thursday, Oct. 16. That signaled the payment services could be having issues. (Disclosure: Down Detector is owned by Ziff Davis, which also owns Mashable.) PayPal and Venmo are part of the same company, so it tracks that both might experience problems at the same time. I was able to access Venmo on my phone at about 12:25 p.m. ET, but there remained a number of complai…
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