#downdetector

#downdetector

Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was reportedly down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to a site that keeps track of online outages. Over 41,000 issues were reported with the controversial microblogging site in the United States alone, with another 8,000 in the United Kingdom and 2,400 in India, according to DownDetector.

Steam is experiencing an outage that's impacting users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve hasn't acknowledged the outage publicly, but SteamDB's unofficial Steam Status page reports that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs are all offline. DownDetector received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15PM ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve's mobile apps. The outage appears to be affecting APIs for Valve's online games, like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counterstrike 2, as well.

Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed and it was "back up and running," after users reported trouble sending and receiving money for hours. "We're sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate you bearing with us while our team addressed this," the company said in a post on the social platform X. Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, showed reports that problems began spiking at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday.

WhatsApp has been hit with a global outage and thousands of users are reporting issues to DownDetector and a message reads "Unexpected error occurred." A person posted on X, "Hello!! Is anyone in Argentina having problems with WhatsApp Web??? It won't connect on me, it's giving me an error." Another said: "WhatsApp is down for many users in India." Another wrote, "Global problem. Here in Chile it's down too."

When Netflix crashed within minutes of releasing Stranger Things series five, it felt like a plot twist worthy of the sci-fi show itself. Viewers were left unable to stream the opening episodes of the long-awaited final series, with many voicing their frustration on social media platforms. The outage tracker Downdetector recorded more than 14,000 reports in the US, while fans in India reported the streaming service freezing and displaying connection errors, with 200 reports made in the country during its peak.

If you're staring at an error message from ChatGPT right now, you're not alone. The popular AI chatbot is experiencing a significant outage, with users flooding social media to confirm it's not working. The outage appears to have started around 11 a.m. ET. OpenAI's official status page posted an incident, stating, "We're currently experiencing issues" and "Increased errors on ChatGPT conversations." The company confirmed users are experiencing "elevated errors" and is "working on implementing a mitigation."

Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the system and shut it down. Multiple social media users and data from services like DownDetector are noting that the service is down for many people, with a massive spike in reports pretty much the moment Silksong became available.