The 15 hours long down of Skype

The famous service for videocalls and chat has been offline from 10.20 am (CET) of September 21st, until 1 am of the following day

Update 1.00 am (CET): Skype said they identified the issue and restored the full service. The issue did not affect Skype for business they said. Skype has not yet released any specific information about what caused the down.

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Skype is down since approximately 10:20 this morning. Many users on Twitter and other social networks are reporting not being able to connect, neither with the computer version nor with the mobile. In some cases you can communicate with each contact individually, even if the state is offline, but it is not possible to start calls or video-calls. Those who have not logged in before the problem occured might find impossible to do so now. At the end of 2010, Skype was offline for nearly a day because of a failure, since then there were no other incidents this big. By now, Skype has not given much information but it says the web version is working, even if quite slowly. The issue seems to be related to the mechanism that manage the account settings and that shows if one is “online”, “offline”, “invisible” etc.

We are aware of an issue affecting Skype status at the moment, and are working on a quick fix: http://t.co/ymSzmrgEX0 pic.twitter.com/8LoqqL0hh7

— Skype Support (@SkypeSupport) September 21, 2015

Skype was founded in 2003 by two engineers, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who then sold the company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion. In 2009, eBay sold 70 percent of Skype’s shares to private investors, valuing the entire company $ 2.75 billion. Considering the significant growth of its users, in these eight years Skype has not produced big gains. In 2010, Microsoft bought Skype for $ 8.5 billion.

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