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Dave LeClair

Spotify was down — what happened during the major outage

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Around 9 a.m. ET, Spotify stopped working for thousands of users around the world. Listeners flocked to Down Detector to report the outage, with it almost instantly jumping to more than 40,000 reports.

After a few hours of downtime, Spotify officially said the service is back, and Down Detector reports reflect that.

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