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☆ Amazon's AWS says it is investigating issues with signup
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud service division Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Sunday it was investigating an issue where users attempting to access AWS signup were receiving error messages. Hundreds of users reported issues with accessing Amazon Web Services on Sunday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. Amazon's voice assistant Alexa was also down for thousands of users in the United States, according to Downdetector.com. More than 15,000 users reported issues with Alexa at the peak of disruption, Downdetector data showed. Users also reported issues accessing Amazon's mobile app.

☆ Amazon's Alexa down for thousands of users, Downdetector says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

April 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) voice assistant Alexa was down for thousands of users in the United States on Sunday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 9,000 users reported issues with Alexa. Users also reported issues accessing Amazon's mobile app. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu NomiyamaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Apple TV down for thousands of US users -Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

April 15 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Apple TV platform was down for thousands of users in the United States on late Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Around 6,000 users reported issues with accessing Apple TV. Users also reported facing issues with other Apple services like Apple Support and iCloud. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users. Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Apple Music down for thousands, other services also affected
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Logo of an Apple store is seen as Apple Inc. reports fourth quarter earnings in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File PhotoApril 10 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) music service was facing issues, the iPhone-maker said on its status page on late Monday, while users reported issues with various other services of the company. According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, services including the support service and Apple store were down for thousands. More than 3,300 users reported issues with streaming Apple Music at the peak of outage, while nearly 2,200 reported problems with App Store in the United States. Apple's status page indicated that Apple Music, Apple Music Radio, and iTunes Match were facing an ongoing "outage."

☆ Instagram down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

March 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platform's (META.O) Instagram was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 27,000 users were having trouble accessing the social network, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Meta did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; editing by Eileen SorengOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Netflix streaming down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

March 2 (Reuters) - Netflix's (NFLX.O) video streaming services were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. There were around 1,800 reports on Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources. About 55% of the users reported issues with the website, according to Downdetector. Netflix, which has more than 200 million paid subscribers globally, remains a dominant streaming service. Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-PhillipsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Twitter down for some users in US - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Twitter logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoMarch 1 (Reuters) - Twitter was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 4,500 users in the United States reported issues with accessing the social media site, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Another outage last month hit more than 8,000 users.

☆ YouTube down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which showed there were more than 8,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube, tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. YouTube did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Twitter down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Thousands of Twitter Inc users were unable to access the social media platform on Wednesday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. More than 8,000 users reported issues with the micro-blogging site, according to Downdetector. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages could have affected a larger number of users. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ T-Mobile down for thousands of users in U.S. - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 13 (Reuters) - T-Mobile (TMUS.O) users across the United States reported network outages that prevented several customers from making phone calls or using other cellular services late on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The website, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed there were more than 60,000 incidents reported. Many customers took to Twitter to share updates about the service disruption, with several users saying they saw 'SOS' notifications on their phones. The U.S. wireless carrier has been adding thousands of wireless subscribers lately, thanks to discounts on smartphones, bundled offerings, industry-low plan prices and an edge in 5G. The carrier added 927,000 postpaid phone subscribers in the fourth quarter, the highest among its peers.

☆ T-Mobile outage hits users across the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 13 (Reuters) - T-Mobile (TMUS.O) users across the United States reported network outages late on Monday, according to an outage tracking website, as the company said it was quickly addressing a disruption that had affected some cellular services. The number of reports of T-mobile outages over the preceding 24 hours had peaked at more than 83,000 at around 10:20 p.m. T-Mobile's help page responded to Twitter messages from users experiencing problems, saying it would review the complaints. Downdetector also reported thousands of reports of services of other U.S. wireless carriers Verizon Inc (VZ.N) and AT&T Inc (T.N) being down. The website showed more than 2,000 unresolved incident reports for Verizon and more than 1,200 for AT&T at the peaks.

☆ Meta's Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of U.S. users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 12,000 Facebook users reported errors and about 7,000 incidents were reported for Instagram, according to Downdetector.com. Users also reported issues with Facebook's online messaging service Messenger. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'SilvaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Twitter outage leaves some users unable to tweet
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Some Twitter users were unable to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said "You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets." Twitter was down for about 9,000 users in the United States at 5 p.m. Eastern time, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. "Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. read moreThe Information reported Musk told Twitter employees on Wednesday to pause on new feature development "in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up." Reporting by Khushi Mandowara in Bengaluru and Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Microsoft investigates Outlook outage as users face issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 7 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it was investigating issues with email service Outlook as users in North America faced problems with accessing, sending or searching emails on the platform. There were more than 2,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Outlook late Tuesday at about 23:10 ET, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. "Users primarily hosted in the North American region attempting to access Outlook.com may be unable to send, receive, or search email. Additional functionality such as Calendar consumed by other services such as Microsoft Teams would also be affected," Microsoft said in an update on its status page. A "recent change" led to the issue and the company was working to restart portions of the affected infrastructure in order to restore service, Microsoft said in a tweet.

☆ Meta's social media apps back up after brief outage, Downdetector says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) social media apps appeared to be back up after facing a brief disruption in the United States on Wednesday, data on outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed. At the peak of the outage, more than 17,000 user reports had indicated issues with Instagram in the United States, as of 2352 GMT. Over 13,000 incidents were reported for the Facebook app and outage reports also briefly spiked for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger around the same time. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Spotify down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA's (SPOT.N) music streaming platform was down for thousands of users on Thursday, 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. "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 on Thursday. 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. Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Microsoft probes outage issues into Teams, Outlook services
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

[1/2] FILE PHOTO: A Microsoft logo is seen in Los Angeles, California U.S. November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo/File PhotoJan 25 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage, which left thousands of users in India unable to access the website's multiple services including Teams and Outlook. Downdetector.com, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed there were more than 3,700 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams in India. Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-PhillipsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Spotify down for thousands of users -Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Audio streaming platform Spotify (SPOT.N) was down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 38,000 affected users from the United States at the peak of the disruption. Thanks for your reports!" Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the audio platforms's current status, said on Twitter. Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Clarence FernandezOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Twitter down for thousands of users - Downdetector.com
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Dec 28 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Over 10,000 users reported issues with accessing the social media website in the United States as of 7:40 pm ET. Some users also complained that their Twitter notifications were not working. Reporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Amazon down for thousands of users - Downdetector.com
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Dec 7 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The outage may be affecting a larger number of users. Users also reported outage at Amazon's cloud services unit Amazon Web Services but the reports were fewer than 300, according to Downdetector. Amazon did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The White House piles on to the Taylor Swift presale controversy, saying its student-debt relief website processed 8 million applications in 30 hours without crashing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain compared it to the success of the student-debt relief website. He said it supported 8 million borrowers who applied for relief in the first 30 hours. Since then, 26 million borrowers have applied through the online form. Two federal courts have blocked the debt relief in the past week. The Education Department is also not accepting any new applications for debt relief as these court battles play out.

☆ Ticketmaster was 'experiencing technical difficulties' and outage reports surged as presale started for Taylor Swift's Eras tour
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ticketmaster was experiencing technical difficulties on Tuesday as presale started for Taylor Swift's new tour. Swift's Eras tour, her first in five years, kicks off in 2023. Ticketmaster appeared to be crashing for some people hoping to snag tickets for Swift's upcoming Eras Tour, her first tour in five years. The presale kicked off Tuesday at 10 am EST, and outage reports surged at Downdetector.com leading up to the presale, and continued after. Needless to say, demand is high for Swift's tour.

☆ Zoom says it has fixed issue preventing access to platform
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Nov 3 (Reuters) - Zoom Video Communications (ZM.O) said on Thursday it has resolved an issue that was preventing some users from accessing its platform. The company's status page showed at 1833 GMT that all its services were operational. There were more than 15,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the audio-streaming platform earlier on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru, additional reporting by Chavi Mehta; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Meta's social media apps down for thousands of users - Downdetector
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) social media apps were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 11,000 users across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger reported issues with accessing the apps, sending messages and logging into their accounts. Meta's messaging app WhatsApp had faced a global outage just earlier this week, which was later resolved. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini GanguliOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ WhatsApp outage reported globally with many unable to access the Meta-owned messaging service
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook parent Meta , suffered a global outage on Tuesday. Users reported problems with sending and receiving messages. WhatsApp Web, the internet browser version of the messaging service, failed to load when tested by CNBC. "Make sure your computer has an active Internet connection," a prompt on WhatsApp Web read. In August, Facebook users reported a problem where their Feed was spammed with messages from other people that were initially made on celebrity pages.

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