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Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch went down Tuesday with issues that are preventing “some users from going live.” Reports on DownDetector show outages beginning Tuesday morning and continuing to rise from there. The Twitch Status page shows a “partial outage” for video broadcasting.
Just before 10:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Twitch tweeted about the problem: “We are investigating an issue preventing some users from going live. Thank you for your reports.”
The scope of the problem is unclear at this time. We’ve reached out to Twitch for more information. We are investigating an issue preventing some users from going live. Thank you for your reports. Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) February 2, 2021
Twitch is back after experiencing a partial outage
Many parts of the site seemed to be broken during the outage
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Twitch experienced a partial outage on Thursday afternoon. During the outage, I was able to navigate to the site’s homepage, but often, the carousel of featured streams didn’t load. In a few instances, when I clicked into a stream, it briefly loaded before the site showed an error message.
While the outage was going on, the Twitch status page said that the company had “identified an issue causing Twitch to fail to load in some cases.” While the status page only noted “degraded performance” for the web, I was also seeing errors while navigating the iOS app, but I’m not seeing those errors anymore.