Is Spotify down? Users report online streaming service outage
Streaming giant goes down for some users
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Is Spotify down? Users have reported that the streaming service is reportedly having issues, according to Down Detector as of 3 PM GMT. Spotify has not clarified as to whether or not the service is running, as their official Twitter account has yet to report or post any issues with any service delivery. Additionally, these kinds of issues can be localized dependent upon where the user is trying to access the servers are from.
It is possible that Spotify is only down in certain regions, as it’s unlikely that a worldwide outage will occur, as we saw earlier this week with Amazon Alexa. Now, for users who are having trouble with Spotify, you just have to sit and wait it out until Spotify’s engineers can identify the potential issue that appears to be affecting a certain number of users, with over 965 reports coming in all at once.
So, it’s surely not only users that are sending false flags, but unfortunately, Spotify’s service status doesn’t tell us much either. The only way that the servers can cause a global outage is if an update has been rolled out, which has caused the server to behave strangely. The engineers may need some time to roll the update back in order to ensure that they can get the service up and running again before fixing it, and trying to roll it out again. However, this kind of catastrophic failure of service is rare, so it’s likely to just be an affected portion of users, as we could expect to see many more reports reflected on Down Detector if this was the case.
Is Spotify down right now?
Spotify appears to have some issues for some users using the service right now if Down Detector is to be believed. It is possible that this is only affecting some users, so be sure to check for yourself if the service is working, as this is unlikely to be a global outage for the service. Additionally, users may be trying to attack Spotify, since they’ve been in the news for political issues earlier in the week. Is it revenge of the nerds all over again? We will just have to wait and see if the streaming giant issues any official communications.
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