Spotify mobile app outage affects thousands of users
Spotify experienced a major outage beginning around 10:30am ET on September 29, leaving thousands of users in the US and UK unable to access the mobile app. Reports peaked at over 17,000 in the US, with many unable to log in or access service. Spotify acknowledged the problem and said it was working on a fix. Service began recovering after a few hours, with remaining reports dropping below 1,000 by afternoon.
- Spotify outage started around 10:30am ET
- Over 17,000 US outage reports at peak
- Issue mainly affected the mobile app
- Spotify confirmed and investigated the problem
- Service began recovering after several hours
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