There are clearly more pressing issues in the world right now than not being able to access your favourite Chill Vibes playlist, but it didn’t stop Spotify’s temporary outage causing quite the palaver . “Something’s not quite right,” the official Spotify Status account rather nonchalantly tweeted at 6.22pm on Tuesday evening, as a significant portion of its 400-million-strong user base tried and failed to log in or, in some cases, were told that their accounts had ceased to exist. “Thanks for your reports!”
And the fact that, at the last count, the tweet had generated more than 11,000 replies and 9,000 quote-tweets — the tones of which ranged from meme-fuelled sass to frantically typed anxiety — shows just how much we’ve come to rely on the tech giant.
