Spotify ‘back up and running’ after thousands of users experience outage

Spotify experienced a widespread outage with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer, but the platform said it was back up and running hours later.

Many Spotify users said that they were having difficulty loading both the app and desktop site, playing or hearing songs and using its search function.

In addition to loading and playback issues, downtime updates noted that some users were also having problems accessing the platform’s support site.

Spotify did not immediately provide more information about what might have caused the outage but the Stockholm-based company previously said that “reports of this being a security hack are completely inaccurate.”

The platform currently boasts having a total of more than 675 million users around the world, including 263 million subscribers across over 180 markets.

To talk more about the outage and the latest in tech and AI, we’re bringing in Mohit Rajhans, a media consultant with thinkstart.ca