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Outage Pinterest Severity: high

Pinterest API outage on August 4, 2025

Announced4 Aug 2025
Effective4 Aug 2025
StatusIn effect

What changed

Pinterest's status page lists an outage of Ads Manager, Boards, Home, Pins, Profile, Sign up and login and The Pinterest API on August 4, 2025. It was first posted as investigating at 10:06 PDT; at 13:04 PDT Pinterest said the services should be slowly back in operation and the root cause had been identified, and it was marked resolved at 13:53 PDT. Pinterest did not publish the cause.

What it means

For close to four hours on August 4, 2025 (Pacific time), Pinterest reported an outage of the Pinterest API along with Pins, Boards, Profile, Home, Ads Manager and sign up and login, so scheduled Pins and API calls could fail.

Who is affected

Scheduling tools and apps that published or read Pins, boards or analytics through the Pinterest API during the incident, advertisers in Ads Manager and people logging in to Pinterest.

What to do by 4 Aug 2025

Check whether Pins scheduled for that window published, and retry failed jobs with backoff instead of tight loops during a reported outage.

What this means for you

On August 4, 2025, Pinterest went down for close to four hours, including the connection that scheduling apps use to post for you. Pins planned for that time may not have been posted, and logging in may have failed. Pinterest fixed it the same day. If a Pin from that window is missing, post it again.

The details

  • Components listed: Ads Manager, Boards, Home, Pins, Profile, Sign up and login, The Pinterest API.
  • Status: outage.
  • Timeline (Pacific time):
    • 10:06 PDT, investigating: "experiencing an outage. Our engineering team is working to identify the cause".
    • 13:04 PDT, update: services "should be slowly back in operation. Also the root cause has been identified."
    • 13:45 PDT, update: "We are continuing to investigate this issue."
    • 13:53 PDT, resolved.
  • Cause: identified by Pinterest but not described on the status page.
  • Duration: about 3 hours 47 minutes between the first and last status posts; the problem may have started before the first post.

What to do next

  • Business owners: If a Pin was scheduled for the morning or early afternoon of August 4, 2025 (Pacific time), check that it is live.
  • Marketers and agencies: Check client Pins scheduled for that window and republish any that failed.
  • Developers: Watch the "The Pinterest API" component on pintereststatus.com and back off retries while it reports an outage.

Primary sources

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