Square goes down two weeks after Starbucks (square.com)

Does it have anything to do with Starbucks? How do you know?

Are both the main site and the API not functioning at the moment? This would be less of an issue if payments could still be processed during this time

The title is unnecessarily provocative-- Square wouldn't magically eradicate downtime after a starbucks deal.

And the website being down is different from the service not working. [Edit: the payment app doesn't work on my iPhone either. I guess I spoke too soon]

squareup.com is still up.

Edit: Apparently it was a cached page in my browser.

Square.com is now using squareup.com SSL certificate.

Does this mean Square, Inc. already acquired square.com?

Edit 2:

square.com automatically redirects to square.com

whois info still says that square.com owned by Square Enix.

At least this is happening when the vast majority of the shops that accept Square are closed.

I would prefer that a mod change the title to remove the implication that Starbucks caused the outage. If a user believes that Starbucks did cause the outage, or that the the temporal proximity of these two events is significant, I suggest a blog post explaining the significance.

"Square is down" is a perfectly acceptable title, IMO.

AND IT'S BACK :D

Up again.

This story doesn't need to exist

There are prostitutes at the Rosewood that had to get their johns to bring cash! It is a disaster!

This has been killed. But:

Square Support ‏@SqSupport We apologize for the connectivity issue this evening. The issue has been fixed and we're taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. Expand Reply Retweet Favorite