Spotify suffers global outage; users in US among most affected

Online audio streaming platform Spotify suffered an outage across the world. According to Down Detector, the website which tracks outages in various websites and apps, more than 38,000 users in the US lodged complaints.

At 7.12 am, more than 5,500 users in the United Kingdom flagged issues while using the platform. As the news of Spotify encountering a glitch exploded on social media, the company tweeted informing the users that it was looking into the matter.

“Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Thanks for your reports!” Spotify tweeted.

Soon, Twitter was flooded with memes with netizens coming up with unique ideas to flag Spotify’s outage.

“spotify is down and i can hear my own thoughts, fix it”, a user tweeted.

Spotify is down and i can hear my own thoughts, fix it pic.twitter.com/NIrbi3zCri

— cer? (@cerxsviolxt44) January 14, 2023

Another user posted,”i don’t pay for spotify premium for it not to work”.