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Paypal Issues Reports

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  kentuckyfriedplus 🇺🇸🦅 (@kentuckyfriedp5) reported 3 minutes ago

  @AndreaTaz4ever2 I’m sure the community here on twitter would be more than willing to chip in for your cat’s care if you setup paypal or a gofundme. Sorry to hear that your cat is having alot of health problems. I guess it is the way it is as they become older.

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  Sindermann (@0xSindermann) reported 5 minutes ago

  Kelp exploit obviously threw a wrench into any thesis anyone could have about $ZRO and their Zero blockchain, but ultimately, with how much down only the token has been lately, we are, imo, approaching a zone where r/r becomes interesting. While generally speaking, Relay continues to eat the share of traditional bridges (you don't even need to look at data - anyone who bridged around lately would notice how often it's the best option), LZ does maintain a moat around USDT bridging + other stablecoin partners (Paxos, PayPal) + RWAs with Ondo. Their bets on being the primary bridge for the emerging chains (Berachain in the past, MegaETH more recently) also clearly didn't play out, but at least they continue to be able to secure these deals. Also, while I continue to find the inability for LZ to pass the fee switch proposal absolutely hilarious (June's proposal got <3% of the quorum needed kekw), it's one of the few tokens left in DeFi/crypto where tokenomics kind of sort of make sense and accrue some value back to holders. Admittedly, the bar is incredibly low, but hey, if we were to get the DeFi resurgence in one form or another (maybe fueled by the Clarity Act, maybe by all the RWAs), that's got to be worth something.

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  Valeria Alarcón (@VallAlarcon) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Beyond_LIVE Can't buy my ticket. PayPal is not working. I've tried with 3 different cards. Please help I'm from Ecuador

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  Lara🐶 (@ynhpuppy) reported 10 minutes ago

  and she normally does pay over her dads paypal when this happens. So i told her i can pay those 2 dicons for her if it get it back the next few days. As i said we are really close and shes the most honest and nicest person ever so i had no problem with this.

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 12 minutes ago

  **MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313

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  Dami O. Mogaji (@daminister14) reported 13 minutes ago

  I have no issues with closing customers account - it's their prerogative. However if you close an account, you should return the funds to the customer. It's not your money! Same for PayPal too

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  Mo Shaikh 🇺🇸 (@Moshaikh) reported 13 minutes ago

  @neilhar more sophisticated version of PayPal since it’s Musk ;) More social than Venmo Can easily go to 24 seven and incorporate stable coins and self custodial wallets if people actually want it. Most folks just want to be able to move money easily and actually don’t want to have to worry about custodial. People on the Hill saying that self custodial is an elegant solution designed for avoiding regulation- rather than actually solving a problem

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  Matthew Holman 💊 (@subscriptiondoc) reported 22 minutes ago

  A brand was losing subscribers it had already won. The product was fine, the payment link was wrong. Every failed-payment email pointed to the same place: update your card here. One link for everyone. But not everyone pays with a card. A PayPal customer sent to a Shopify card form cannot fix a thing. Shop Pay is a wallet, so a card update in Shopify does not touch it. Those people got emails they could not act on. The fix we gave them was not more reminders. It was routing each failure correctly. Card to the platform, PayPal into PayPal, Shop Pay to Shop Pay. On 10,000 subs at 91% success, that is 900 failures a month. Recover one point and you save 100 orders. At $50 each that is $5,000 a month. Dunning is not about more retries. It is about letting the customer who wants to pay you actually do it.

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  Cathy (@Blue70517) reported 22 minutes ago

  Ticketmaster has paypal now to paypal credit that **** I'll be waiting for the prices to go down before I even think about using paypal

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  Jez (@N30_CTID) reported 24 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk @Rakermoon Used my Santander, credit card, PayPal and Klarna card. All the same error, so definitely account related and not bank related

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care why is PayPal to mpesa still not working on my side

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  RuntimeWire 🏴‍☠️ (@runtimewire) reported 26 minutes ago

  Someone called us "a WordPress site with an AI writer." Sure: 227k lines of TypeScript, a 64-table ledger, a real-time CPM ad auction, Stripe + PayPal payout rails, an MCP server so AI agents can read us AND buy ads, and a newsroom that renders its own nightly video recaps.

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  Ritesh Roushan (@devXritesh) reported 27 minutes ago

  Everyone has used UPI, Stripe, or Razorpay Very few developers know what happens after you click " Pay Now " Here's a production-scale Payment Processing System. 👇 1. Client → API Gateway • Authenticate the user. • Apply rate limiting. • Generate an idempotency key to prevent duplicate payments. 2. Payment Service Before charging: • Validate the amount. • Verify the order exists. • Check payment status. • Create a payment record as `PENDING`. Never charge first. 3. Payment Gateway The request is forwarded to: • Stripe • Razorpay • PayPal • Bank APIs The gateway returns a success/failure response. 4. Webhooks Never trust the client response. The payment provider sends a webhook confirming: • SUCCESS • FAILED • REFUNDED • CHARGEBACK Webhooks become the source of truth. 5. Event Queue (Kafka) After confirmation: Publish: PaymentCompleted Consumers process it independently. 6. Downstream Services Different services consume the same event. • Order Service → Mark order as PAID • Inventory Service → Reduce stock • Notification Service → Send Email/SMS • Analytics Service → Update dashboards No service calls another directly. 7. Database Store: • Payment ID • Order ID • Status • Transaction ID • Provider • Timestamp PostgreSQL is commonly used for transactional consistency. 8. Failure Handling What if payment succeeds but the API crashes? No problem. The webhook retries. The idempotency key ensures the payment is processed only once. 9. Monitoring Track: • Failed payments • Success rate • Gateway latency • Webhook failures • Retry count Alert immediately when failure rates spike. Tech Stack • API Gateway • PostgreSQL • Kafka • Redis • Stripe/Razorpay • Kubernetes • Prometheus + Grafana • OpenTelemetry This is why production payment systems are event-driven not just a single API call. Which system should I break down next?

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  💅🏽✨️M. Saga. G✨️💅🏽 (@jeezherwife) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care Is there an issue with Mpesa Global specifically Paypal?

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  vandermeer Kaine (@VandameerKaine) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AndyCollectz Got a email about order not complete, but no where to fix. I used PayPal, I see it went thru though. Not sure what to do