Is Twitch Down? Twitch Servers Currently Suffering Outage Issues
By Nicholas Barth ·
The popular livestreaming platform of Twitch is currently down with multiple streamers and users reporting server outage issues on September 13th.
Thursday, September 13th saw the massively popular livestreaming platform of Twitch suffer server outage issues that has many viewers of the popular website currently asking one simple question.
Is Twitch Down?
The reported problems with Twitch that looked to have caused the site suffer sever loading issues for multiple streams looked to have begun around 9:45 AM PST. Multiple well known Twitch streamers, such as Jack "CouRage" Dunlop and Michael "shroud" Grezesiek, took to Twitter when the crash of the website occurred.
Twitch is down.
— OpTic CouRage (@CouRageJD) September 13, 2018
My AC isn't working right.
I'm out of snacks.
Do I dare go outside? Is this the tipping point? I need to stay strong.
twitch pls
— Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) September 13, 2018
One of the major issues that has stemmed from the website currently being down for some users is that it has caused a massive drop in viewership for the FACEIT Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament that was taking place when the server outage issues first hit. The stream for the FACEIT CS:GO Major had well over 200,000 viewers when the site-wide loading issues first began that has caused the viewership numbers of the highly anticipated event to drop significantly.
Other well known streamers who routinely pull in tens of thousands of viewers on a daily basis, such as Tyler "Ninja" Belvins, TimTheTatMan and Dr DisRespect, all had major drops in viewership when the popular Amazon owned website went down. This lead to CouRage to take the chance to poke some fun at his fellow streamers.
@Ninja @DrLupoOnTwitch @timthetatman It's been a good run boys...PepeHands pic.twitter.com/EzwQpLErlL
— OpTic CouRage (@CouRageJD) September 13, 2018
However, at the time of this writing, it looks as though some viewers are beginning to have their issues resolved as the viewership numbers for the likes of Ninja and the FACEIT CS:GO Major have risen significantly closer to their normal levels.
The official Twitter account for the support division of Twitch posted an announcement that they were currently looking into the site-wide loading issues that were causing Twitch to be down for some time.
? We're investigating site-wide loading issues. Hang tight!
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) September 13, 2018
We will continue to update this story as it develops.
(cover photo courtesy of Twitch)