Twitch goes down partly as users report widespread outage

The mega streaming platform Twitch went down for a majority of users today, with numerous people reporting that the site was not working for them.

Twitch confirmed the outage itself on its Twitch support channel on Twitter and confirmed that it was investigating the issue. Users first started reporting issues with Twitch around 12pm CT, with the problems still present an hour later.

“We are investigating an issue preventing multiple areas of Twitch from loading,” Twitch said. The number of reports on the Twitch page for DownDetector has skyrocketed in the past hour.

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Many users on the Twitch homepage could not load any streams or even see any watchable streams on the homepage, on their following page, or from a category page. Most following pages weren’t even loading, and most users could not search for streamers but were able to pull up old VODs. Many streamers were left unsure if they are even broadcasting. The issues were appearing on Twitch’s desktop, mobile, and TV app platforms.

The massive outage comes just three days into the new year, after a 2022 in which several high-profile streamers and creators left for YouTube, including Fuslie, LilyPichu, Myth, Swagg, and Sykkuno.

In 2022, over 22.5 billion hours of streams were watched on Twitch, according to data from SullyGnome, across over 284 million streams. The 22.5 billion hours watched is down from 24.3 billion hours in 2021.

Update Jan. 3 2:05pm CT: Twitch’s Support page has confirmed that it has fixed the issues affecting Twitch, with services returning to normal.