Viral food delivery raises over $500,000 in donations
A short clip of DoorDasher dropping off a food delivery led to more than $500,000 in donations. Let’s see what happened.
Just in time for lunch, DoorDash appeared to be back up and running after thousands of users reported issues with the platform Tuesday morning.
According to Downdetector, which provides real-time outage updates, as of 10:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 16, more than 36,000 DoorDash users reported issues with the platform. Just before noon ET, DoorDash shared in an X post that the outage had been resolved.
The post read, “Hey…how are you all…?” “We are working hard to resolve the issue and fix affected dashers and orders as quickly as possible. We are truly sorry.” If you have any questions or concerns about the brief outage, we encourage you to contact DoorDash customer service.
According to Downdetector, the majority of issues were reported in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
This story has been updated to add new information.
Greta Cross is USA TODAY’s national trends reporter. Story ideas? Email her at gcross@usatoday.com.
