Spotify and Discord don’t seem to work.
TechCrunchers and Twittersphere are having trouble signing into Spotify. People have been reporting on Twitter that opening the Spotify app on a mobile device results in a login process, but even the correct username and password result in a failed login attempt.
The music streaming company confirmed the issue on Twitter:
Something is wrong and we are looking into it. Thanks for your reports!
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) March 8, 2022
Discord has confirmed that it is also experiencing an issue affecting the delivery/reception of messages.
We are aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thanks for waiting! https://t.co/rq97JXSEFv
— Discord (@discord) March 8, 2022
We have reached out to Spotify and Discord to learn more about this issue and will let you know when we get a response.
In the meantime, you can always check out Apple’s coverage here on TechCrunch, or…
Enjoy these tweets about the Spotify outage:
Spotify logged me out… Discord won’t load… Apple will stop at nothing to get me to watch this B-level performance
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 8, 2022
why does Spotify make me think I don’t know my own password
— 👒 (@taylorismother) March 8, 2022
Update: Spotify responded and basically pointed us out on twitter for updates. So let’s keep watching Twitter.
Actual answer:
We are aware of this issue and have posted an update to @SpotifyStatus. We will post another update when everything is back to normal.
One more update: At 2:39 pm ET, about an hour after Spotify began receiving reports that Spotify was down, @SpotifyStatus said everything seemed to be working again.
Now everything looks much better! Give @SpotifyCares shout if you still need help.
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) March 8, 2022
One more update: Spotify has explicitly told TechCrunch that they are still investigating the root cause of the issue, but they have no reason to believe it was caused by a malicious hacker.
Here is the official statement:
Spotify and several other platforms today experienced a brief service outage that began around 1:15 pm EST. As of 2:40 pm EST, Spotify is back up and running normally for most users. You can check @SpotifyStatus for more updates.
Yes, another update: Discord is also returning online with a few confusing features.
Discord is working again for messages, calls and streams! We’re still working on a few things like attachments and input events, but they should be back online soon.
Thank you all for your patience~
— Discord (@discord) March 8, 2022