Spotify services restored after outage affecting over 40,000 users

Spotify is back up after hours long outage impacting users across the world. The music streaming platform was down for global users, including India. According to uptime monitoring website Downdetector in India, user error reported for Spotify began spiking around 9.30 PM. Spotify in a post on X (formerly Twitter) acknowledged the outage saying “We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!”.Both app and website were impacted by the outage.

Informing users about services being restored, the company said “Everything’s looking much better now! Give @SpotifyCares a shout if you still need help.”

A Spotify community page now reads:
Hey folks,
Thanks for your patience while we looked into this issue.
We’re happy to say that this should now be fixed for everyone!
If you're still having trouble, make sure to post a new thread in the relevant help board here.
Thanks!

Spotify has now revealed any details about the outage - the downtime and reason behind it. As per Downdetector, the outage lasted approximately for three hours. It started around 8pm IST and lasted till 11:15pm with fewer reports. The outage affected around 40,000 users during the peak.