2022-03-08T19:09:27.737Z

Oh, you might see on Downdetector that the online Apple store is down – well, that’s not quite because of the outage (or maybe it is, but there’s another reason).

That’s because Apple’s March Event just wrapped up, and the company usually takes its online store offline while it populates it with more products.

So yeah, busy day in tech. We saw the iPhone SE (2022), iPad Air 5, M1 Ultra and more. You can read our full Apple Event live blog here. Also, the store has just gone back online.

2022-03-08T19:04:11.936Z

Some other reports are coming in from TechRadar team members in the US. They’re finding that Discord and Spotify are both down.

2022-03-08T19:03:11.415Z

Spotify is another service which is down.

However this definitely isn’t as widespread an outage as we sometimes see, because multiple members of the TechRadar team are accessing it just fine.

That said, all surveyed members of team are UK-based. This sounds a lot like a US problem.

2022-03-08T18:59:15.911Z

It’s worth pointing out that not everybody will be affected by these outages – but enough are that some companies are commenting on the issues.

Discord is one such company, which apologized for the issue. Although it did follow up by saying “time to go outside everyone”, which seems a little sassy. OK, mom.

2022-03-08T18:57:16.810Z

In the UK, the affected webpages are similar:

• Spotify
• Discord
• Twitter
• Amazon Web Services
• Destiny
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Cloudflare
• Facebook
• Google Cloud
• Revolut
• Snapchat
• Steam

2022-03-08T18:54:27.100Z

In the US, Downdetector is seeing outages for:

• Spotify
• Discord
• Wikipedia
• Amazon Web Services
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Destiny
• Cloudflare
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Google Cloud
• Twitch
• Multiple Apple services
• TikTok
• Snapchat

2022-03-08T18:49:37.031Z

This is our first post of this internet outage live blog – we’re investigating what’s going on now.