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Uptime and history
Buffer's uptime over the last 90 days is 99.95%. That's 56 min of downtime, counting only what it rated as major outages. With smaller problems included, a reported problem was open for 2 days 10 h. Over the last 30 days it's 100%, and over the last 7 days 100%.
With 3 other social media tools over the last 90 days, by what each reports on its own status page.
How well Buffer keeps people informed when something goes wrong.
Posting small problems openly is a good sign. An app that reports more problems isn't necessarily less reliable than one that reports fewer.
Recent
Degraded Performance
Buffer Service Disruption
Issue Connecting & Refreshing YouTube
Issue Publishing Video Posts to Substack
Issue with publishing to Mastodon accounts hosted on mastodon.social and mastodon.online
Issues with Buffer fully loading
Degraded Performance
Issue Connecting and Refreshing Threads
Parts
The record
Over the last 90 days Buffer ranks 3rd of the 4 social media tools we can rank, with 99.95% uptime and a reported problem open for 2 days 10 h.
Buffer has reported 25 problems since July 2026, about 7 a month. It rated 1 of them as a major outage.
| Typical time to fix | 1 h 20 min |
|---|---|
| Longest problem | 6 days 1 h, starting 13 Jul 2026: Issue with Threads comments |
| Last problem | 22 Oct 2026: Degraded Performance (12 min) |
| Longest quiet spell | 16 days without a problem, from 5 Sep 2026 to 22 Sep 2026 |
| Busiest day | Wednesday, when 6 of the 25 problems started |
From Buffer's own status page, as far back as we can read it in full. Rankings go by uptime, then time free of reported problems, then problems per month. A low count can mean few problems or few posts.
Alternatives
Other apps that do the same job, ranked by their own record over the last 90 days.
| App | Now | Problems, last 90 days | Time with problems | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sprout Social | Working normally | 7 | 7 days 12 h | Visit Sprout Social |
 Hootsuite | Working normally | 8 | 35 days 13 h | Visit Hootsuite |
 Later | Working normally | 5 | 8 h 22 min | Visit Later |
Ranked by their own reported problems over the last 90 days. * The record for this app is still filling in.
Safety
Facts from its own public records, checked every day.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 from buffer.com's public records. Breach data from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0).
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On Appys it’s listed under Social and entertainment, with the other social media tools we follow. Every status and figure on this page comes from Buffer’s official status page, where Buffer’s own team posts problems and fixes.
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