Spotify down for thousands of users - Downdetector

Music streaming platform Spotify was down for thousands of users on January 27, 2023 according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
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Music streaming platform Spotify was down for thousands of users on Friday (NZT) according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.

In the second such outage within two weeks, nearly 35,000 Spotify users reported on Downdetector.com they were having issues with the streaming platform.

In New Zealand, reports peaked at 8:24am when more than 900 reported an issue.

"Something's not quite right, and we’re looking into it," Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the platform's status, said in a tweet.

Spotify suffered a brief outage earlier this month, with more than 45,000 affected users from the United States at the peak of the disruption.

A networking outage at Microsoft earlier this week took down its cloud platform along with services such as Teams and Outlook, hitting millions of users globally, while Meta Platforms Inc's social media apps Facebook and INnstagram also faced a brief disruption.

Reuters / Newshub.