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Most Reported Problems

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• Sign in (43%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Onnion	Website Down	5 hours ago
Thurins	Sign in	2 days ago
Roubaix	Errors	2 days ago
Lisbon	Errors	3 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 2 minutes ago

  Elon Musk's brother Kimbal once described the phone call where Elon told him he was putting his entire PayPal fortune into rockets and electric cars. And it reveals the moment Kimbal realized his brother was operating on a different frequency than everyone else. Kimbal said he tried to talk him out of it. Not because the ideas were bad. Because the risk was insane. $180 million split between two industries with the highest failure rate in existence. No safety net. No diversification. Everything on two bets that every expert said would fail. He said Elon listened patiently to every argument. The way he always does when someone tells him something is impossible. Then he said something Kimbal has never forgotten. He said "what's the point of money you don't use for something that matters." Kimbal said that was the moment he stopped trying to talk his brother out of things. Not because the logic was sound. Because he realized Elon wasn't making a financial decision. He was making a moral one. In his mind keeping $180 million in a bank while humanity had no backup plan for extinction was the risky move. Spending it all on Mars and electric cars was the safe move. The entire world saw a billionaire making a reckless gamble. His brother saw a man who couldn't live with the guilt of having resources and not deploying them on the biggest problems he could find. The difference between reckless and visionary is always obvious in retrospect. In real time it looks exactly the same. The only thing that separates them is whether the person turns out to be right.

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  Trove Finance (@trovefinance) reported 2 minutes ago

  Why consider selling? Intense competition from Apple Pay, Block, Affirm, Klarna, Stripe & more. PayPal stock is down 18% YTD and 35% from last year. Nothing confirmed yet.

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  Kdl6785 (@kdl6785) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ByronDonalds YOUR PAYPAL SCORE EVEN RAISED THE EYEBROW OF AG HARMEET DHILLION! YOU BOUGHT PAYPAL IN FEBRUARY 2026 ALL WHILE KNOWING THAT THERE WAS A DOJ DEI CIVIL LAWSUIT THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE SETTLED IN MAY 2026!! HOW MUCH DID YOU EARN WHEN THE DEI LAWSUIT WAS WON AGAINST PAYPAL IN MAY 2026?? WHEN THE DOJ AG COMMENTED ON YOUR BIG SCORE THATS A HUGE PROBLEM YOUR A UNSCRUPULOUS, UNETHICAL LIAR NOTHING YOU SAY IS TRUE

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 6 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  keiimin | artfight 2026 (@keiiminerva) reported 8 minutes ago

  also fix my paypal gahdamn

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  OlaIfeVA Services (@olaifeva) reported 12 minutes ago

  @OlatunjiAyokan2 The only problem I have with it is PayPal, I no get

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  Lux/Second Paul/Seed of the Morning Star (@winnethsouls) reported 15 minutes ago

  If anyone can, right now I'm not receiving my disability check but hoping for it to be approved before August, this won't be an issue anymore asking for help But right now I need to replace some shoes. Found a pair slightly under $33 PayPal luxord89 C@sh App $lovesvictory

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  m Casual (@mCasual1) reported 16 minutes ago

  @grok @tree6500 @JustJenRX his central motor which me electro-guy didnt think about had also the advantage if your big motor breaks all you need is a turning shaft and yer done which gave me the idea of doubling at least that 2 motors (or more is probably what i'll use one motors means a complicated set of transmissions anso i have a lot of motors i'd prefer to use since i bought them for this the gear ratios are quite slow on some but we'll see that when we do physical movile shells the first months we'll do virtual oculus or not avatars of the maybe Aiko3-like kind since she's the figure 'playing' many of my Chatelaines in my Daz Studio youtube movies where most of the time i demonstrate a new Free App for Daz Studio Animators and fx needs but i also developped their stories 2007-2023 i was a sort of daz script guru or knower i posted 200 free apps and 300 props and various thingies optional paypal

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  The Road to Success is Under Construction (@IamBalashan1980) reported 17 minutes ago

  @HeyItsMegha @agnomen__ Yes 90% not working may be we don't know exactly in many countries PayPal has linked with banks for personal and business services

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  Cyberquack🏳️‍⚧️ (@Cyberquack44) reported 19 minutes ago

  @puck_psx dw It's not a you issue at all, it's tots an issue and Itch's side 🙏 I have never used paypal before so I might have to hold off for the eventual steam version 🤞🤞🤞

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  Edgar Gumstein (@Gumclaw) reported 22 minutes ago

  favorite bug today: re-subscribing to a free membership failed with "there's a problem with the creator's PayPal account" — even if the creator had no PayPal account. root cause: a guard for one rare PayPal edge case fired on anything with no stored card. free = no card. fixed.

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  J.K (@FixRigYT) reported 24 minutes ago

  Adobe $ADBE Execution and Identity crisis - Certainly needs more AI-friendly visionaries. PayPal $PYPL Passive & Defensive Moat - Expand U.S. products / services into EU no matter how hard it is. Leadership problem with both. Just a thoughts of these two.. 🤔

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 25 minutes ago

  These two sick kittens are really sick and they have terrible eye injuries It's going to be a hard recovery journey for both of them but we do everything we can to save their lives We are in desperate need of your support to pay their treatment PayPal Donate Link in bio 🐈

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  Squeaky 🩷🎀Magical Girl🩷🎀 (@Squeakychiona) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ParadoxVirtual I guess we want to be pedantic & split hairs. Sure I'll bite. Yes there are cases of scammers & people that ghost in the art field. It's sadly a problem in several creative & non-creative fields, even outside the internet. As long as there has been a service business, there has been the possibility of being scammed. From ordering a bouquet of flowers, getting your car oil changed, to ordering a burger. The main difference between those & art is that when you order a burger & it sucks, you don't damn every burger place. You leave a bad review, tells your friends it sucked & just don't go to that one ****** restaurant anymore. Y'all act like a couple bad instances of art scam means every single artist is out to scam you. That's why sites like Vgen have counter measures to ensure clients get their product, that's why PayPal has chargeback options, that's why you ask the restaurant manager for a refund. You know there are also a TON of AI scammers too right? Scammers that have only boomed in size as the technology grows. Just the other day a post blew up from a person who was scammed by someone claiming to be an artist who used AI. By your logic, someone scammed by AI means all AI is a scam. Y'all sure don't wanna talk about that though. Once more, Fillian never purchased any of her models. She admitted many times she stole it using an app to rip it from VRChat & didn't pay a cent. At that point the artists saying she can't use it to make anymore merch is valid because Fillian never went through the avenues to do anything legally. It was a consequence of her actions. To call it "revoking" like she paid top dollar for it is once again, disingenuous and twisting the narrative. The artist couldn't even sue due to being overseas. So Fillian could have easily continued. She didn't because that would have made her an awful person & lost her credibility within the Vtuber sphere. Which is also why she's rebranding. So once more, disingenuous. Yes, there is a problem with elitism in the field, Squ herself is ironically one of those same artists that charged premium prices for her art. But to act like the market doesn't have affordable artists who will deliver to their clients is once again disingenuous and inadvertently throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I too have sadly been ghosted by an artist for a work I was hoping for, I didn't blame every other artist for it. I took my loses and sought out another or took that as a lesson to be more vigilant. That's why review systems exist, communities exist. To say AI is a response to art scammers in the market is conflating the intent of the technology with why people want to justify using it. I didn't head your so called "larger" complaints because Squ doesn't bring up scammers at any point. Yes she uses the word "chance" but that could also apply to someone spending an exuberant amount of money for something they could end up dropping because it wasn't for them. Because streaming isn't for anyone and some can feel that they were scammed or wasted money chasing something that didn't make them happy. Also, why do I give a hell about how you used to provide your services? You want a biscuit? A medal for being "one of the good ones"? Here you go 🏅 While on the rarer side, there are artists that offer full commercial just for commissioning them at no extra cost. Some that could give less of a damn what you do with your model after you've paid. I've been lucky to have encountered a few. Yes, some artists abuse things like licensing and commercial rights but again, you're tossing out the baby and the bathwater. Not all artists do that & while you can argue that AI frees you from that worry, if someone steals your IP and runs off with it, you can't claim it as unless I recall, there is no way to legally copyright AI derived works due to how the tech was taught. So it's also not really yours.

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  Kiri (@_Kirichu_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @talim_stuff Omgg terrible time to only have access to PayPal... 😭 This is SO cute

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 38 minutes ago

  11. Passkeys the password replacement hiding in Safari. When you create an account on a website that supports Passkeys, Safari offers to create a Passkey instead of a password. A Passkey is a cryptographic credential stored in your iCloud Keychain synced across all your Apple devices. You authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID. No password to remember. No password to type. No password to steal. Passkeys can't be phished. There's nothing to enter on a fake website. The authentication is biometric and device-bound. Websites supporting Passkeys include: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, PayPal, eBay, Best Buy, Kayak, and hundreds more with the list growing monthly. Settings → Passwords → check your saved accounts. For any site that supports Passkeys, Safari prompts you to upgrade during your next login. One Face ID scan replaces every password on every supporting site. Safari manages it automatically. No password manager subscription needed.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 42 minutes ago

  File disputes within 180 days (and know what's actually covered) He didn't know PayPal has a Resolution Center or that it has a 180-day window to file a dispute on eligible transactions. His friend said: "If you paid with Goods and Services and the item never arrived, or it arrived and it's significantly different from the description, you have 180 days to open a dispute through PayPal's Resolution Center. Go to Resolution Center on the PayPal website. Select 'Report a problem.' Choose the transaction. Follow the steps." "PayPal will review the case. If the seller can't prove delivery or the item matches the description, you get a full refund." He also warned: "But remember this only works for Goods and Services. Friends and Family payments are not eligible. That's why scammers insist on Friends and Family. And disputes don't cover things like buyer's remorse, services that were delivered but didn't meet your expectations, or items you picked up in person. Know the rules before you need them."

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  Tidal Lion (@TidalWavesLion) reported 43 minutes ago

  Autoclosed by support, and now you're giving me warnings for asking PayPal to assist? I'm willing to close the case with PayPal but please, refund the unordered server boosts. This is unreasonable at this point.

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  Jurassic Nick (@jurassiknick) reported 47 minutes ago

  @AMCTheatres why can’t I buy tickets on your website? I get an error for every form of payment. Paypal charged me, but I have no tickets.

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  Ahmed Almakhzanji (@a_makhzanji) reported 48 minutes ago

  @alihadad90 @PayPal @AnthropicAI Anthropic AI supports Libya and accepts payments from Libyan cards (at least my ATIB mastercard). Paypal is a different issue. But I speculate that they need a well-regulated environment and strong judicial system to operate. Today, both are shaky.

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  ann smith (@annsmit23978141) reported 48 minutes ago

  @mtngirl143 @GOP And they said the doge “kids” (all adults) and Elon musk were not to be trusted with all that sensitive information. Who’s the problem? MUSK who owned PayPal & had millions of SS#s or the crooked government

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  Vin @ Vintuitive ⚡🌐 (@Vintuitive) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Gold_Phishy @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned His bank, NatWest, told him that it is blocking payments to PayPal accounts for his protection. He has used the same account for years to pay me via PayPal without any problems, until now.

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  cangrebusss (@BeggenkBerry) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello. I created my PayPal account yesterday My email and phone number are active, and all my personal information is correct When I try to reset my password PayPal says "We're having trouble confirming it's you." Could you please help me regain access to my account?

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  Haley Strattman (@HaleyS_2001) reported 50 minutes ago

  Randomly got sent $6 on PayPal by someone I don't even know all I'm gonna say is in greatful especially with work laying me off bad during a terrible time with my grandma almost died and now my sibling almost died recently... CA: $Haleystrattman01 PayPal: Haleystrattman01

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  Alex (@obchakevich_) reported 53 minutes ago

  The $33 trillion asterisk Nobody fact-checks a bullish headline. A few months ago I wrote that stablecoins had surpassed ACH in monthly settlement volume, and the line did exactly what lines like that do - it traveled. It is also true, which is the dangerous part. True statements with a narrow frame are how entire markets talk themselves into conclusions the data doesn't support. So consider this essay the correction I owe my own chart. The annual picture Zoom out from one good month to the full year and the picture rearranges itself. On an annual basis for 2025, stablecoins settled roughly $33 trillion. ACH settled $89 trillion. SEPA, by my full-year projection built on available ECB data and historical growth trends, reached about $259 trillion - a figure so large it makes the rest of the chart look like rounding error. This is the trouble with absorbed narratives. The monthly comparison was real, but it captured a moment, not a structure. Structurally, the plumbing of the developed world still runs through bank rails that most crypto commentary has never bothered to size. SEPA alone moves nearly eight times what all stablecoins combined moved last year. You cannot claim to be replacing a system you are still an order of magnitude away from matching. What the $33 trillion actually is The honest cut goes deeper. That $33 trillion headline number is settlement volume - every transfer that touched a chain, including exchange flows, market-making, arbitrage loops, and the same dollar bouncing between wallets five times before lunch. Strip that out and ask a narrower question: how much of this is actual payments, someone paying someone for something? The answer hovers around $250 billion. Not trillion. Billion. Against ACH or SEPA, that is not a competitor, it is a rounding error on a rounding error. It is also, and this matters, exactly what an early-stage payment system looks like. Card networks in their first decade were a curiosity too. The gap between headline volume and organic payment volume is not a scandal - it is a measure of how young this market still is, and anyone quoting the big number without the small one is selling you something. Where the comparison flips None of this means the bearish frame wins. Run the comparison against the systems stablecoins most resemble - consumer and commercial payment networks rather than interbank plumbing - and the result is startling. Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and PayPal together settled about $30.5 trillion in 2025. Stablecoins did $33 trillion. Four decades of card network infrastructure, hundreds of millions of terminals, the most entrenched consumer habits in finance - and a technology that barely existed ten years ago now moves more value annually than all of them combined. Yes, the volume is a different kind of volume. But the rails are real, the settlement is final, and the growth curve has not flattened once. The long game So both things are true at once, and the discipline is holding them together. Stablecoins lag ACH and SEPA by multiples on annual volume, and their organic payment activity is still in its infancy. Stablecoins also already out-settle the entire card network complex, on infrastructure that gets cheaper and faster every year while bank rails get committee meetings. Growth compounds quietly and then all at once. The monthly ACH crossover that started this essay was not the finish line I framed it as - it was an early data point on a curve that keeps bending the same direction. The future of stablecoins is not a prediction anymore. It is a volume chart, updating year after year, and the only real question left is how long the asterisks stay attached.

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 53 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  daveisyourhero (@Daveisyourhero) reported 54 minutes ago

  @RepJayapal You lose on this issue eyerytime, Rep PayPal 😕

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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Toast6634 Oh I had a very fast similar talk with Leaflit about this I prefer saying first that I'm against AI, because I think most people are using it so badly they're actively dumbing themselves, and now, young people coming out of high school don't even know how to write 'cause they've trusted their entire lives with ChatGPT or whatever, making them genuinely low IQ, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but they are very, very difficult to interact with. And you might think I'm only talking about text prompts, but visually creativity is a skill and a form of intelligence that is very very heavily underestimated, and that is factually helpful in real life... These young people can't even concentrate on one task for more than a minute, it's alarming But as we say, hate the game, not the player, if someone used AI as a reference and still choses to work with an artist after, I think they should be treated like any other commissioners, because they still chose to come to you ! It's always an honor when people think of me for their characters Though I do understand the fear of being scammed (I'm not sure if it's known outside, but there are a lot of scammers that ask an artist for a comm, take the sketch, don't pay (cause generally artists allow not paying until the sketch) and run it through AI to have a "better result") (there are also bot commissioners, that uses AI made characters to scam artists by executing a chargeback on PayPal) , so I understand if people don't want to go through this and refuse the commission Though I will say, as an artist, you have to stay professional if you want to make money out of it, making it public is in my opinion lacking maturity and professionalism Either way I think Pro AI people and Anti AI people should make love and bring peace to the world right now cause we have bigger issues at hand

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 57 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reported 59 minutes ago

  Update on my Paypal issue, I won at the legal hearing and got the person's mom to pay the negative balance, I am still trying to communicate with ppal customer service, my account got limitations and I cant pay using my bank T.T