Spotify, Discord face brief global outage, issues reportedly fixed

Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services across the world faced a total outage in many parts of the world, late on Tuesday night. Spotify users reported being unable to log into their Spotify accounts and listen to music.

However, the outage appears to have been fixed now.

The Spotify web player and app, on both Android and iOS devices, suddenly stopped working at approximately 11:30pm IST on March 8.

This left users in many regions including India completely unable to use the music streaming service.

Spotify quickly confirmed the outage via an official tweet and said that it was working on it. Check out the tweet below. Social media platform Discord also went down during approximately the same time, and as per DownDetector, users had started reporting issues with the platform at around 11pm IST on March 8.

Discord also confirmed the issue on Twitter. However, similar to Spotify the Discord issue was also quickly fixed and users are now reportedly able to use the platform. What caused the sudden outage on both platforms is still unclear.