LinkedIn was down for some users, but it’s back up

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Linkedin CEO Jeff Weiner, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Linkedin Executive Chairman and co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Source: Linkedin

Some people had trouble accessing the website for business social network LinkedIn on Wednesday, and the company said it’s working to address the issues. The websites Downdetector and Downrightnow both showed that people were reporting issues with LinkedIn. 

LinkedIn has more than 610 million users. For context, in the first quarter Facebook had 1.56 billion daily active users.

LinkedIn said it was working on the issue in a tweet.

Microsoft owns LinkedIn. It paid $27 billion to acquire the company in 2016. LinkedIn generally operates independent of Microsoft. LinkedIn is responsible for more than 5% of Microsoft’s revenue.

A LinkedIn representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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