17 Facts About Craigslist

Craigslist is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, resumes, and discussion forums.

Craigslist was incorporated as a private for-profit company in 1999.

Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areas—for example, the U S states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Some fans of Craigslist expressed concern that this development would affect the site's longtime non-commercial nature.

In June 2012, Craigslist changed its terms of service to disallow the practice.

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In December 2019, Craigslist introduced a platform for iOS and a beta version on Android.

Craigslist has been pressured by San Francisco Department of Public Health officials, prompting Jim Buckmaster to state that the site has a very small staff and that the public "must police themselves".

On May 13, 2009, Craigslist announced that it would close the erotic services section, replacing it with an adult services section to be reviewed by Craigslist employees.

On September 4, 2010, Craigslist closed the adult services section of its website in the United States.

Adult services section link was still active in countries outside of the U S Matt Zimmerman, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said, "Craigslist isn't legally culpable for these posts, but the public pressure has increased and Craigslist is a small company.

Craigslist announced on September 15, 2010, that it had closed its adult services in the United States; however, it defended its right to carry such ads.

Craigslist said that there is some indication that those who posted ads in the adult services section are posting elsewhere.

On, 2010, after pressure from Ottawa and several provinces, Craigslist closed 'Erotic Services' and 'Adult Gigs' from its Canadian website, even though prostitution was not itself illegal in Canada at the time.

Craigslist has a user flagging system to report illegal and inappropriate postings.

In July 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle criticized Craigslist for allowing ads from dog breeders, stating that this could encourage the over-breeding and irresponsible selling of pitbulls in the Bay Area.

Craigslist filed a trademark lawsuit against the Swedish luxury marketplace website Jameslist.

In 2012, the Craigslist Foundation closed, with charity work moving to supporting charitable funds.