In the early hours of Wednesday, 9 March (PHT), Spotify and Discord faced major outages, with users all around the world reporting trouble logging in across both their web and mobile applications.
According to reports and data from DownDetector, both the streaming service and digital messaging platform were facing technical problems at around 2:00 AM (PHT). Users shared that they got logged out of Spotify and were receiving error messages despite entering the right login details, while Discord users were experiencing several messages and call delivery failures.
After several hours, both the platforms are reportedly now back online.
Everything’s looking much better now! Give @SpotifyCares a shout if you still need help.
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) March 8, 2022
time to go outside everyone
— Discord (@discord) March 8, 2022
While no definitive cause was stated for Spotify and Discord's outage, the latter attributed the errors to a malfunction with their Google Cloud client. According to a report by The Verge, Google Cloud also shared that Spotify also used their services and that they have yet to identify a root cause.
We're aware of an ongoing issue with HTTP 500 errors on Google Cloud Load Balancer. Our teams are investigating and updates are being posted on the Status Dashboard. → https://t.co/85DIWpwcHZ
— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) March 8, 2022
In the advent of Spotify and Discord's outage, users took to social media to share what their hour without music and messages looked like. Check out what some users had to say.
spotify logged me out and won’t let me log back in. i will now be killing myself 😍 pic.twitter.com/fI8m5xOW31
— raf (@raffyyzz) March 8, 2022
me pretending idc ab spotify not working so that it magically works again pic.twitter.com/3uCxZJjNcL
— MW🤍 (@mmiawatson) March 8, 2022
Me trying to get into my Spotify account pic.twitter.com/CXBBSlA2nq
— Wilma (@RedCasia) March 8, 2022
Us running to Twitter to see if Spotify and Discord is down for everyone else #spotifydown pic.twitter.com/1XWQVhrPP2
— Harshid (@harshid_17) March 8, 2022
everyone trying to remember their passwords to Spotify and Discord when it gets back up pic.twitter.com/UmjcfQLTPb
— chair (@chairma_n) March 8, 2022
me joining my family downstairs for dinner after 8 years since Spotify and Discord are down: pic.twitter.com/0T5CigeG6Y
— ZaxPrefersTV (@zaxptv) March 8, 2022
me after restarting my wifi, deleting and installing spotify and discord again to end uo finding out its doen for everyone: pic.twitter.com/kCMRLzXlVq
— •••• (@have0skillz) March 8, 2022
Since Spotify is up and running again, check out Bandwagon's Regional Roundup for new weekly tunes across Asia.
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