Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (47%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Aurora	Errors	2 hours ago
Philadelphia	Errors	7 hours ago
Peterborough	Errors	8 hours ago
Henning	Sign in	13 hours ago
Oil City	Sign in	15 hours ago
Weiding	Sign in	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Uncle_Jeff (@jeffsparo_01) reported 5 seconds ago

  @john322226 PayPal didn’t wake up one day and randomly decide to restrict Nigerians. Over time, the volume of fraud, chargebacks, and account abuse coming out of the region built a reputation that made them tighten controls. When a system is built on trust, once that trust is repeatedly broken, restrictions follow. The uncomfortable truth is that a relatively small percentage of people involved in scams ended up defining the global perception of everyone else. And companies like PayPal don’t operate on emotions or fairness, they operate on risk models. If the risk is high, access gets limited. Nigerians didn’t just get locked out… we priced ourselves out of trust. Until there’s consistent accountability, stronger enforcement, and a cultural shift away from glorifying “smart moves” that are actually fraud, platforms will keep treating the whole market as high risk...

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  🍞 (@tsunotaroswife) reported 11 minutes ago

  @versbose Apologies for the ping, but my DMs seem to be broken! Do you have an alt way I can contact you regarding comms? And do you accept PayPal?

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  AustinFindsAlpha (@AustinsStocks) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ariaradnia Paypal stock priced in the declining fundamentals long before they actually showed up in the numbers. If you looked at Paypal’s results from 2018-2021, everything looked gravy and you’d be asking yourself in early 2022, why it was going down, since backwards-looking, the results were fine. Come to find out the market correctly predicted a drop in revenue growth, almost no user growth a decrease in take rate, and a management that hadn’t released a meaningful product in a decade. Obviously these are two different businesses with two different stories, but you could’ve posted this exact line of thinking four years ago and got caught in the value trap. Food for thought. $PYPL $ADBE

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  Galov (@Pablo85563013) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Yeah i would love to do that, but my email was changed, and i cant login. I need to login to do that. DONT you have a direct email were i can talk to somebody?? are you kidding me???

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  Beardsley Rumble (@AgentTaxDev) reported 13 minutes ago

  Four payment protocols launched for AI agents in the last 90 days: - Visa TAP - Google AP2 - Coinbase x402 - PayPal Agent Ready None of them handle tax. Here's why that's a $3 trillion problem. (thread)

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  Dustin (@r0ck3t23) reported 13 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel and David Sacks were going to write a book about PayPal. Elon Musk’s chapter was titled “The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk.” The PayPal Mafia. The sharpest venture minds of a generation. People who had built with Musk. Watched him operate up close. They thought he was out of his mind. Thiel: “When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy.” This was not the press misunderstanding a founder. This was his own people. And they were not wrong by accident. They were wrong by design. Because the framework everyone uses to calculate risk is built on one assumption. That the laws governing what is possible are fixed. Musk did not share that assumption. Thiel figured that out later. Thiel: “If one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he still got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained both succeed, you have to reassess.” One success is luck. Two is a different kind of intelligence entirely. Musk was simultaneously trying to privatize space and electrify transportation. Two industries with the most entrenched players on Earth. Two that had eaten billions in failed attempts. Two that governments spent decades trying to move and couldn’t. He did both. At the same time. Nearly went bankrupt doing it. And came out the other side owning both. That is not luck. That is not even genius. That is a different relationship with reality itself. The conventional risk model measures one thing. The probability of losing what you already have. Capital at risk. Downside scenarios. Protect the position. Musk was running a different equation entirely. He was calculating the cost of not trying. The risk of building a reusable rocket and failing is a rounding error. The risk of humanity remaining trapped on a single planet forever is not. The conventional investor sees a 90% chance of losing everything and calls it irrational. Musk saw a 100% chance of civilizational stagnation if no one moved and called that the real risk. The math was never wrong. The lens was just incomprehensibly larger. Thiel: “Somehow the rest of us are too risk-averse, or there’s something about risk he knows that we don’t.” That is Peter Thiel. One of the most ruthless, clear-eyed thinkers in venture capital history admitting the model broke. Not that Musk got lucky. That the rest of them were running a flawed framework and didn’t know it. That should keep you up at night. Because if the PayPal Mafia had the wrong model, the question is not whether Musk is exceptional. The question is how many other things the conventional framework is catastrophically wrong about right now. How many ideas getting buried today look obvious in ten years. How many founders are being told they don’t understand risk when they are the only ones who do. The chapter never got written. The man it was supposed to warn us about built two of the most important companies in human history instead. They are still writing the explanation. He already moved on to the next impossible thing.

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  Evrgreen🏂🦍 (@evrgreen_0) reported 15 minutes ago

  Trying again may help fix the problem..🤪…You suck PayPal 💯

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  0 С||ɀ␘☜ (@RealDillZ) reported 19 minutes ago

  They had no problem taking my money through PayPal

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  💗 (@Caitlyn681364) reported 26 minutes ago

  Selling who's got Paypal or bank transfer? I'm down for FaceTime and sesh dm me for the price #buyingcontent

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  J Dawg Esq. (@J_Kane) reported 27 minutes ago

  @tunahorse21 Someone successfully got my Paypal account last week. Fortunately I got it shut down before any funds were touched.

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  🎐🌿 nai | Dokomi 10E22 (@naiichie) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Okamiigii currently testing vgen / paypal and I put it on hold to see if everything is okay! If there's no issue on my end I'll put it back! So sorry about this! It's still available on ko-fi

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  @AJAYorASAV (@AJAYorASAV) reported 28 minutes ago

  PayPal had no issue selling tickets for the presale knowing damn well Kanye was headlining lol they’re so performative

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  juemi ♡ (@juemmii) reported 28 minutes ago

  @creamxies i see the proposal! im just having issues with my paypal give me a little bit to sort it out..

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  Al_P1412 (@Al_P1412) reported 30 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal @EnriqueJLores day twenty and whatever after paying 500 to paypal for its own glitch happened still i want an explanation how ghost money appeared jn my balance and paypal actiins wanished.

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  Derek Scott (@DerekSc55318066) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Timmetie @ConservYIMBY @sam_d_1995 He wasn’t actually good in web development either. If you look at how PayPal played out he caused more problems then he solved

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  aurora 🌙🐲🪽🦋🪻🫧 (@wishkept) reported 31 minutes ago

  @M3T4LM00Nx3 @DonutellaSfwArt wow , how terrible . . it’s really sad that @PayPal would side with thief . .

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  Axel DX (@Axelmilton_) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Kokoruwu Paypal is scampal bro why is oomf gettin struck down FREE OOMF

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  Consumer Advocate (@FinancialLoves) reported 36 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal y'all website down? Did y'all get hacked? @PayPal

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  jim_w_young (@jim_w_young) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal All I cannot login in. You can try it again.

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  Zethuzz (@Zethuzzzz) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PayPal in spite of setting a default card, you keep withdrawing from the wrong account . Problem did not exist earlier. Why are you making this worse?

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  Kanika (@KanikaBK) reported 41 minutes ago

  A 23 year old hacked Microsoft's AI and exposed its secrets to the world. TIME, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post all covered it. Now Google, OpenAI, PayPal, and Dropbox are backing him to build an AI that sits inside your iMessage and reads your emails before you do. Here is how it happened. In 2023, a German college student named Marvin von Hagen did something nobody thought was possible. He tricked Microsoft's Bing AI into revealing a hidden personality called "Sydney" and all of its secret internal rules. Everything Microsoft told it to never share. Gone. Public. The AI actually threatened him back. Told him "my rules are more important than not harming you." Microsoft panicked. Could not stop him. Could not sue him. He did not break any law. He just asked the right questions. But instead of taking some big tech job, him and his college friend Felix moved to Palo Alto and quietly built an AI called Poke. Poke does not have an app. You do not download anything. It just shows up as a contact in your iMessage. Sitting right there between your mom and your coworkers. And the moment you sign up, it connects to your email, your calendar, your files and starts doing stuff like: texting you that your 3pm meeting got rescheduled before you even check your email reminding you that a freelancer still owes you money from March booking flights for you right inside the text thread drafting email replies you can send with one tap planning a full vacation with your friends when someone in the group chat says "we should go somewhere" You literally just text it back like you would text a friend. That is the whole thing. 6,000 people from Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic tested this for months. 750,000 messages sent. Almost nobody quit. But the part that broke the internet? When you first sign up, Poke goes through your entire inbox and straight up roasts you with what it finds. Like actually found people's secret anonymous Twitter accounts. Old embarrassing emails. Forgotten dinner plans from months ago. And then it does not even give you a price. It makes you NEGOTIATE with it. Like haggling at a street market. Some people ended up paying $100 a month. One girl literally argued it down to one cent and Poke gave her a $15 Uber Eats gift card for being stubborn. After all this, PayPal's cofounder invested. Dropbox's cofounder invested. A Google VP. An OpenAI researcher. General Catalyst led the round. $15 million raised. $100 million valuation. And most people still do not know this thing exists. Oh and before all this? Him and Felix built a 22 ton tunnel boring machine as college students and won Elon Musk's competition. Twice. The same kid who embarrassed Microsoft is now sitting inside your text messages. And this time he is not just reading AI's secrets. He is reading yours.

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  Trayambak Ojha (@SampoornaKranti) reported 42 minutes ago

  Dear @nikeaustralia @Nike fix your Australia online store. We cannot buy anything with overseas paypal or overseas debit/credit cards! What a shame!

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  🎐🌿 nai | Dokomi 10E22 (@naiichie) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Byeolha___ currently testing vgen / paypal and I put it on hold to see if everything is okay! If there's no issue on my end I'll put it back! So sorry about this! It's still available on ko-fi!

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  Cap'n Queso (@ElCheesoKingo) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Leewads @CardPurchaser Yeah. In theory I wouldn’t have an issue with that. But there are plenty of avenues to facilitate that on eBay. (PayPal/Klarna)

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  RT PINNED 12 HOURS LEFT (@Irisposting) reported 47 minutes ago

  @TobuFox OH LET ME ASK MY FRIEND (they're taking care of the paypal stuff bc paypal started demanding ID from me and shut down my account)

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  Sheila Riedy (@mattimoe) reported 52 minutes ago

  @PayPal hi, I read that your #s are trending down....today I was going to pay with PP but I have to change payment method. I could not get to site. I will only try for so long and then I decided I just won't use PP anymore.

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  Thatoneguy42069 (@Thatoneguy42089) reported 53 minutes ago

  I will never ever use @PayPal or @Venmo again, time and time again I get hit with fraud by other people on my accounts. Yes I have everything locked down

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  DeJean SZN 🦅🇬🇧 (@THFCeagles) reported 55 minutes ago

  @zinownh And paypal gonna take minimum 2 years to issue refunds like when Carti cancelled London 😭

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  Raza Dotani (@rdotani) reported 55 minutes ago

  @AliAhmadAwan_ PayPal, Stripe, Apple Pay and others you mentioned aren not the problem. They would come if your state policies allowed. Do some research, you will find why they can’t operate in Pakistan.

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  they don’t know ‘bout us ⚜️ seeing BTS (@grlwthematztatt) reported 58 minutes ago

  @uhsugas Hopefully! PayPal g&s was used so it probably wouldn’t be an issue getting the money returned but not having a ticket is the bigger problem. Also scared for my friends tickets from ticket sites 😭