UPDATE: At 5am Twitch had recovered. Twitch posted an update on Twitter with a couple of messages:
? Is this thing on? We are currently recovering from our site wide issues. Thank you for your patience throughout today. ^RSS pic.twitter.com/lul6m4nHal
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) 31 August 2017
Original article:
Twitch has been suffering outages this evening (Wednesday August 30th) and into the early hours of Thursday (August 31st).
The service first went down earlier this evening, with the app not loading video correctly, and the desktop site just drawing a blank.
Twitch Support said they had resolved the issue within an hour or so.
? We’ve resolved the recent issue preventing the site from loading for users. Please enjoy the streams! ^RSS
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) August 30, 2017
However, it soon went back down again, provoking the ire of gamers and streamers across the world.
twitch y u do dis pic.twitter.com/1ZwP7DeZGr
— 1cePrime (@1cePrime) 30 August 2017
Twitch tweeted saying they’re still looking into the issue, though they didn’t say what the cause of the problem was.
? We’re looking into issues with the site not loading for users. Apologies again for the issues. ^RSS
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) 30 August 2017
Update: Engineering teams are working hard to resolve site wide outages. Apologies for the disruption in service. ^AK
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) 30 August 2017
As of 1am BST, Twitch is still down. The Down Detector website shows a huge spike in the number of user reports from around 8pm GMT.
FYI, the website you’re reading right now is based in the UK, so if you’re based elsewhere, Twitch will likely be up again while we’re getting our beauty sleep.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
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