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Thousands of Discord users reported outages on Friday afternoon, with about 38,000 reports by 4 p.m. ET and initial problems surfacing around 2:45 p.m., concentrated in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle; Discord did not immediately respond for comment.
Microsoft Outlook users began experiencing sign-in failures and intermittent errors ('too many requests') on Monday. Microsoft rolled back a recent backend configuration change, but the rollback did not resolve the outage, and the company is continuing to investigate and monitor the issue, with updates on its status page and X account; Copilot issues are separate and not related to the Outlook outage.
Microsoft's Outlook is experiencing a service degradation with intermittent sign-in issues and access problems. Downdetector shows rising outage reports while Microsoft’s status page says a recently introduced change was reverted and the team is investigating the underlying cause, with no estimated repair time provided.
Microsoft reports an ongoing Outlook.com outage causing intermittent sign-in failures, including 'too many requests' errors and unexpected sign-outs; the company says it is investigating interactions across service components as it flags service degradation, with no root cause or affected regions disclosed yet.
Amazon experienced a major outage that left many users unable to complete purchases and caused mobile app issues. Downdetector logged around 160,000 reports in 15 minutes, with checkout problems accounting for a large share. The disruption, not tied to a specific provider, eased after about two hours, and Amazon acknowledged the issue without offering a cause. Separately, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon data centers in the Middle East, but officials said the U.S. outage was likely unrelated to those regional incidents.
Downdetector logged around 19,400 outage reports for Amazon on March 5 as users faced checkout failures, price glitches, and shipping-location issues; Amazon has not yet issued a public statement.
Amazon suffered a global outage that disrupted checkout and pricing for tens of thousands of shoppers, caused by a software code deployment. Downdetector tracked peaks around 20,000 reports, AWS was not implicated, and Amazon said the issue was resolved by the evening as both website and app returned to normal.
Accenture agreed to acquire Ookla (owner of Speedtest, Downdetector, RootMetrics, and Ekahau) from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash, with plans to embed Ookla’s data into offerings for telecoms, hyperscalers, and governments to optimize Wi‑Fi and 5G, enhance AI infrastructure resilience, improve fraud prevention, and enable analytics. Ookla reports ~250 million tests per month, ~430 employees, and 2025 revenue of $230.7 million with net income of $76.1 million. The deal is expected to close in coming months, with Accenture continuing to operate Ookla’s business as is.
Accenture is buying Ziff Davis's Connectivity division, which runs Downdetector and Speedtest (Ookla), for about $1.2 billion in cash. The move lets Ziff Davis focus on its core brands (IGN, Mashable, Everyday Health) while Accenture adds end-to-end network intelligence capabilities for AI-driven transformation. Downdetector and Speedtest will continue to operate under Ziff Davis during the transition, and the deal may take several months to finalize; Ookla’s growth in part came from 5G rollout and pandemic-era bandwidth demand.
X suffered two major outages on Feb 16, 2026, leaving users worldwide unable to load posts and seeing errors. Downdetector spikes peaked around 41,000 US reports and 12,000 in the UK during the first wave and recurred later, with the latest spike approaching earlier highs before easing. No official cause has been given; Cloudflare and AWS reported no widespread issues, suggesting the fault may lie with an internal crash, DNS misconfiguration, or overly aggressive anti-bot systems. The service appeared to recover by the end of the day, though some users still faced problems as the outageApparently persisted regionally.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, faced a global outage with about 43,000 user reports on Downdetector as of 8:34 a.m. ET; users saw error messages like 'Something went wrong' and were unable to load timelines or post. Service briefly recovered for about an hour, then a second wave of issues hit around 1 p.m. ET before clearing up again in under an hour. The outage adds to a pattern of recent disruptions for X, including a nearly three-hour outage in November 2025 and other past incidents.
Global TikTok outages are impacting users’ ability to load the app, with comments missing and the For You feed behaving erratically. Downdetector and Reddit threads show widespread disruption, though no official cause has been confirmed amid ongoing chatter about recent management changes.
Google confirms an ongoing outage that makes a range of Google Home–compatible devices appear offline in the Home app (bulbs, switches, outlets, etc.), even though some still respond to voice via Gemini; cameras and speakers may be less affected. The company is working on a fix but has not provided a timeline. Downdetector shows a spike in reports, and users have suggested temporary workarounds like VPN or removing/re-adding devices, though the exact cause remains unconfirmed.
Microsoft said a 365 outage disrupted Outlook and other services in the U.S., as it works to rebalance traffic across affected infrastructure and implement additional actions to restore full service, with some users still experiencing degraded functionality.
Downdetector tracked a widespread Microsoft outage affecting Outlook, Microsoft 365, Store, and Teams, with reports rising from thousands to tens of thousands as Microsoft acknowledged North American infrastructure issues and worked to restore service.