Spotify: Audio steaming hit with massive outage impacting 40,000 users
Audio streaming platform Spotify is back up after an approximate three-hour-long outage, which at its peak affected more than 40,000 users in the United States, according to Downdetector.com.
Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, reported less than 600 users were still having issues in the US as of 3pm ET (5am AEST on Monday).
“Everything’s looking much better now!” Spotify said in a post on social media platform X.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Spotify did not immediately respond to a Reuters’ request for comment seeking the reason behind the outage.
Users were not able to stream anything besides recently played songs, their playlists did not load and music randomly stopped playing for some, according to user comments on their community page.
In the second quarter, the number of paying Spotify subscribers rose to 246 million.
