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SocialBee

MARKETING
Velocity5.0

A social scheduler whose public feed is an incident log, not a changelog

social-media-managementincidentsreliabilityplatform-apisstatus
◆Current state
Every recent entry is a status notice. Scheduled post publishing broke for roughly twelve hours across July 27–28, the SocialBee API went down on July 18 taking the mobile app and Zapier and Make integrations with it, the mobile app had separate issues resolved on July 20, and the hashtag generator was intermittently unavailable in June. The one non-incident item is a migration of the Meta analytics integration to replacement metrics after deprecations.
◆Where it's heading
Three publishing or API incidents inside six weeks is the signal here, and the API outage is the most consequential because it took down every integration path at once rather than just the app. The Meta metrics migration is externally forced work — the kind of maintenance a scheduler absorbs continuously as platforms change their APIs underneath it.
◆Prediction
The feed carries only incidents and one forced migration, so it supports no confident read on product direction; further platform-driven metric and API migrations are the one thing it does make likely.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Posting issues

    The opening notice for a posting outage under investigation. Paired with its resolution entry below.

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  2. 15d ago

    [Fixed] Posting issues

    Resolution of the scheduled-publishing failure that ran from July 27 evening to July 28 morning. For a scheduler, missed sends during that window are unrecoverable — the moment has passed.

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  3. 22d ago

    [Fixed] Mobile app issues

    Mobile app issues resolved. The second of three availability incidents in the window.

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  4. 22d ago

    [Fixed] Outage of the SocialBee API

    An API outage that took down the mobile app and external integrations including Zapier and Make. The broadest failure in the window, because it removed every programmatic path at once.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Hashtag generator Issue

    The hashtag generator incident closed with a note that availability may still vary. A degraded-feature notice rather than a fix.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Meta Analytics Metrics Update

    Migration of the Meta analytics integration onto replacement metrics after deprecations upstream. Externally forced maintenance, and the only entry describing a change rather than an outage.

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