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Twitter, Discord, Call of Duty, Roblox and others DOWN in bizarre mass outage
A BIZARRE mass online outage has knocked services including Twitter, Discord and Call of Duty offline.
The disruption has also affected Betfair, Wikipedia, Roblox, the PlayStation network and BBC iPlayer, according to outage tracker DownDetector.
a mass online outage has knocked services including Twitter, Discord and Call of Duty offline[/caption]
Problems began around 3:30pm GMT (11:30am ET) on Tuesday. They appear to largely impact the UK, with US web users unaffected.
Visitors to the affected sites report on DownDetector that they cannot load web pages.
While many are reporting outages, they don’t appear to be widespread, meaning the sites may still load for some people.
It’s unclear what’s causing the issue, which has hit dozens of major services.
Thousands of people have reported problems with a number of websites on online outage tracker DownDetector[/caption]
Call of Duty’s online servers are also down, according to reports[/caption]
Typically big outages across unconnected sites are the result of problems with a major server provider, such as Amazon Web Services.
Here is a list of some of the services affected, according to DownDetector:
- AOL
- BBC iPlayer
- Betfair
- BT
- Call of Duty online
- EA
- Microsoft Teams
- Origin
- PlayStation Network
- Roblox
- Sky Bet
- Tumblr
- Wikipedia
- Xbox Live
Instant messaging service Discord is also affected[/caption]
The news follows issues suffered by Android users today with apps such as Gmail, Google Pay, Yahoo Mail and Google.
Apps on Samsung mobiles have reportedly been crashing and not opening since early this morning, with no fix in sight yet.
More to follow…
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