LinkTree becomes dark in India – and the company does not know why

LinktreeThe popular organic liaison service used by millions of creators and businesses, has been inaccessible in India for several days – and its sudden disappearance of the Indian Web remains a mystery, even for the Australian startup itself.

During last week, LinkTree was inaccessible in India, with some users raising the problem on X. Initially, Techcrunch noticed that the site briefly displayed a message suggesting that it had been blocked by the Indian government. Later, this was replaced by a generic SSL protocol error. The LinkTree application has also been inaccessible in the country.

Founded in 2016, LinkTree became a unicorn in 2022 And exceeded 50 million users In 2024. India was the fifth traffic platform market, representing 3.5% of its world visits – around 7.3 million in July, according to similar web data shared with Techcrunch.

Linkree’s co-founder and CEO, Alex Zaccaria, told Techcrunch that the startup was studying the situation. However, the executive did not confirm if the startup had received a communication from the Indian authorities on its blockage.

The startup later poster On X that he was aware of the service failure in India and “investigated” the problem.

As reported By the Indian daily The Hindu, the breakdown is not limited to a specific Internet service provider and seems to affect all the main networks.

The United States remains the inexpensive Linkree, with 48.5 million visits, followed by Indonesia (32.3 million), Brazil (30.8 million) and the United Kingdom (9.4 million), according to similar data.

India IT and telecommunications ministries did not respond to emails sent this weekend.