Was Twitch down? Fans react as streaming platform fails to open – Sportskeeda

Just three days into the new year, Twitch has already suffered its first major blackout after the streaming platform stopped working abruptly around 10:30 AM PST. Social media has already started buzzing after users, both viewers and streamers, started posting about the apparent crash. 🔎 We are investigating an issue preventing multiple areas of Twitch from loading. The official Twitch Support Twitter handle has confirmed that there is an issue preventing parts of the website from loading for users worldwide. According to reports, users already viewing a stream can still watch without hindrance, but it appears that the “Browse” and “Favorites’/’Followed” tab on the left has stopped working. At the time of writing, here is what the Just Chatting section of the browse tab looks like: The glitched Just Chatting section shows no live channels (Image via Sportskeeda) The search bar is also not working properly, only returning VODs and clips as results without showing the streamer’s page. Clicking on the ‘Following’ tab on the top left just returns the message: “Error loading data.” The Following Tab is also Glitched (Image via Sportskeeda) “$2.6 billion company moment”: Twitter reacts as Twitch goes down, Twitch Support confirms problems loading the streaming
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