Spotify back up after brief outage

Spotify suffered an outage in the U.S. with more than 45,000 affected users at the peak of the disruption.

Spotify suffered a brief outage on Friday leaving many users unable to access the platform. | Photo Credit: Reuters

Audio streaming platform Spotify suffered a brief outage on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the platform before services appeared to come back online.

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"Everything’s looking much better now!" Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the audio platform's status, said on Twitter.

Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed more than 45,000 affected users from the United States at the peak of the disruption.

As Spotify was coming back online, Downdetector said reports of outages had fallen below 2,000.

In October, last year, the audio streaming platform shared that it had 195 million paid subscribers and expected to cross the 200 million mark by the end of the year. The company also revealed that it had an additional 273 million free users with a total of 456 monthly active users.