Category: Outage

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Apple’s iCloud is having an outage, too

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Facebook has only just recovered from one of its worst outages to date, and Gmail and Google Drive also experienced a worldwide outage this week. Now, apparently, it’s Apple’s turn. According to the company’s System Status dashboard, a number of iCloud services are experiencing issues, including iCloud Drive, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Keychain, Reminders, iWork, Photos, […]

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Fortnite’s login and game are down

sudshr47 January 29, 2019

Fortnite is currently down for many players. The Twitter account for the Epic Games’ title, now the most popular video game in the world, confirmed the problem, tweeting “We’re aware that players are experiencing issues when attempting to use Epic Games services. We’re currently working on a resolution and will keep you updated. We’re aware […]

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Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour

sudshr47 January 29, 2019

Photo-sharing app and social network Instagram was briefly taken offline on Monday afternoon, causing nothing of consequence to occur other than a brief respite from one source of the constant deluge of inconsequential information to which we all voluntarily submit ourselves. The service died at about 4:20, tragically the very moment when millions of people […]

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911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

sudshr47 December 28, 2018

911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. remain down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday, according to CenturyLink’s status page, and continues to cause disruption across 911 call centers. Some states have seen their services restored. CenturyLink has not said what caused the […]

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Philips Hue has been having a holiday outage, too

sudshr47 December 27, 2018

Alexa wasn’t the only thing that crashed over Christmas due to an influx of new users. Apparently, Philips Hue has been having an outage, as well. A multi-day outage, in fact. The company confirmed on Wednesday that customers were experiencing issues creating new accounts, logging in and linking their account to third parties. It blamed […]

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Amazon Alexa goes AWOL for many users

sudshr47 October 24, 2018

Some Amazon Alexa users are currently having problems reaching the voice assistant. Instead of reacting to commands, Alexa simply says “sorry, something went wrong.” Amazon hasn’t commented publicly yet on the issue. Based on tweets and Down Detector, users began having trouble reaching Alexa around 7AM PST. While some had their connection issues resolved quickly, […]

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Instagram is down, your cute cat photo will have to wait

sudshr47 October 3, 2018

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Popular ad platform image sharing platform Instagram is down, apparently globally. 

The desktop version of the site only produces an ugly “5xx Server Error” text — we don’t even get a nice image. Mobile version of the app also isn’t responding. 

Instagram outages aren’t all that uncommon — we’ve seen quite a few over the years — but this one appears to be total. We’ve tried accessing the site from the U.S., Australia and several European countries and the result was the same. 

Image: Stan Schroeder/Mashable

Down Detector currently shows people complaining about Instagram being down in these regions as well, though there aren’t too many complaints right now.  Read more…

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For a brief moment of bliss, Facebook was down

sudshr47 August 3, 2018

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UPDATE: Aug. 3, 2018, 10:04 a.m. PDT About 45 minutes after Facebook went down it appears the social media platform has resolved its issues and the site and app are back up and running. A Facebook spokesperson said in an email, “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble connecting to Facebook and it has since been resolved.” 

Other information, like the extent of the brief outage, was not immediately available.

Try going to Facebook.com on your browser, and you’ll probably see nothing this morning. 

Just after 9 a.m. PT, users started posting on Twitter about the social media site not loading. For many users the site was just a blank white page. Read more…

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Google Home and Chromecast are down, affecting users worldwide

sudshr47 June 27, 2018

It’s not just Slack, there’s a Google Home and Chromecast outage, too. A Google spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that there’s an issue affecting “some” of its customers of these platforms, and it’s currently investigating the issue and working on a solution. The company declined to share other information about the nature of the outage or […]

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