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A widespread outage Thursday afternoon affected multiple online services, including Google, Spotify, Discord, and more. Reports of service disruptions have flooded outage tracker DownDetector, with users experiencing login failures, loading issues, and app crashes.
Spotify, in particular, has seen over 40,000 user-submitted outage reports, highlighting the scale of the issue. Many users say they cannot access playlists, stream music, or even open the app. Other affected services, including delivery and messaging platforms, report similar difficulties, leading to consumer frustration. With Google potentially playing a role in the outages, businesses reliant on its cloud infrastructure could be experiencing collateral disruptions.
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