Yep, the Internet is broken: Reddit, Twitch, Amazon, and more are down right now
Several of the world’s largest websites are down right now, including Reddit, Twitter, and Amazon.
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Updated June 8, 2021:Fastly’s status pagenow states “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” This appears to have fixed the issues. The original article follows.
What you need to know
Amazon, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, and several of the world’s most popular websites are experiencing outages right now. According toDowndetector, the outages started to spike around 5:30 AM ET. CDN provider Fastly has an outage right now, which appears to be the cause of the outages.Fastly’s status pagestates that it started investigating an issue around 6:30 AM.
There could be other reasons for the internet being broken, but Fastly is likely at least part of the cause.
The outages have started a chain of memes for those who can still access social media.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?pic.twitter.com/cEzqOhYC9cHave you tried turning it off and on again?pic.twitter.com/cEzqOhYC9c— Richard 🇬🇧 (@Ricker666)June 8, 2021June 8, 2021
not currently broken: android central dot comhttps://t.co/RJg5pR0IFonot currently broken: android central dot comhttps://t.co/RJg5pR0IFo— Alex Dobie (@alexdobie)June 8, 2021June 8, 2021
The list of affected websites is quite lengthy. Some of the biggest names are:
“#Internetdown” is already trending on Twitter, which is a bit ironic as Twitter is one of the websites that’s broken for many at the moment.
This is a developing story, and we’ll add more details as they become available.
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