Linktree, the favored link-in-bio service utilized by hundreds of thousands of creators and companies, has been inaccessible in India for a number of days — and its sudden disappearance from the Indian internet stays a thriller, even to the Australian startup itself.
Over the previous week, Linktree has been inaccessible in India, with a couple of customers elevating the difficulty on X. Initially, TechCrunch observed that the location briefly displayed a message suggesting it had been blocked by the Indian authorities. Later, this was changed by a generic SSL protocol error. The Linktree app has additionally been inaccessible within the nation.
Based in 2016, Linktree grew to become a unicorn in 2022 and surpassed 50 million customers in 2024. India has been the platform’s fifth-largest market by visitors, accounting for 3.5% of its world visits — or about 7.3 million in July, per Similarweb information shared with TechCrunch.
Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Zaccaria informed TechCrunch that the startup was wanting into the scenario. Nonetheless, the chief didn’t verify whether or not the startup acquired a communication from Indian authorities on its blockage.
The startup later posted on X that it was conscious of the service outage in India and was “investigating” the difficulty.
As reported by the Indian every day The Hindu, the outage isn’t restricted to a selected web service supplier and seems to have an effect on all main networks.
The U.S. stays Linktree’s high market, with 48.5 million visits, adopted by Indonesia (32.3 million), Brazil (30.8 million), and the U.Okay. (9.4 million), Similarweb information reveals.
India’s IT and telecom ministries didn’t reply to emails despatched over the weekend.
