UPDATE: It looks like the issues plaguing Twitch and other Fastly sites are being fixed.
Down Detector reports are starting to drop, as the sites using content delivery company Fastly come back online.
ORIGINAL: Popular online streaming platform Twitch is currently experiencing offline server issues.
Thousands of Twitch users are currently unable to login to the platform, leading to speculation that the service has been targeted in some kind of attack.
Specifically, users have reported seeing error 503 messages when trying to login to Twitch.
The Twitch server status makes grim reading for fans, who have complained about not being able to login and stream.
Independent website Down Detector has received thousands of reports that Twitch isn’t working.
The outage tracker monitors social mentions around certain topics to detect when services go down across the world.
The Down Detector outage map shows that the Twitch issues are affecting users in the UK and Europe.
Interestingly, it’s not just Twitch experiencing issues, but rather lots of different websites and services.
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