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Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Skype Outage Chart 02/18/2026 12:40

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City Problem Type Report Time
GermanyHamburg Connection
GermanyHamburg Connection
GermanyBorken Sign in
FranceCaen Video
United KingdomLondon Sign in
United KingdomPoole Connection
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Skype Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • robsmallshire Robert Smallshire (@robsmallshire) reported

    @PerryGibson_ I appreciate this is a co-ordination problem a much as anything else. Code clubs could choose to use tools which work on these more-accessible platforms. I have no idea why they chose Skype of all things. But here we are.

  • Dustymason_ dustymason (@Dustymason_) reported

    @curryspcworld I'm off down to Currys Battling the snow flurries New laptop to work from home Zoom calls so I'm not alone All you need is in store Or get it delivered to your door Helping us with all our needs Until the vaccines they succeed Off I go now to type With my daughter over skype

  • _Rbot_ Rooben.avi (@_Rbot_) reported

    Im in a skype call called actual Mishas please help me

  • jeanni_art Jeanni Grant-Nelson (@jeanni_art) reported

    @SkypeSupport @Skype please help. I have a very distressed elderly friend who is isolating and has accidentally lost his Skype account and all contacts. He is extremely distressed and needs to speak to someone to help as online instructions only making it worse. Please help now.

  • Toadcialism Antifa Amphibian Czar🌹🔥 (@Toadcialism) reported

    @generativist I always propose just using the damn phone first and cite my mic issues. I have some clients in Europe and South America who I have to Skype with, though.

  • gsespinto_ Gonçalo Pinto (@gsespinto_) reported

    It's 2013. You're listening to Fix You - Coldplay on repeat. Your hopeful lonely *** has Facebook open to check out messages. You and the boys hop on a Skype call to play some Minecraft. Life was simpler. Life kinda sucked tbh. **** that.

  • Villezekeviking Ville (Engholm) Gullstrand (@Villezekeviking) reported from Örebro Kommun, Örebro län

    @MKressmark @mozzeph I have a customer with similar issues but not exactly the same. They want to remain in the teams call muted while handling the phone call but without having Skype running in the background, the teams call is put on hold instead of just going on

  • TimonySouler Timony Souler (@TimonySouler) reported

    @Cirice_Medea As soon as I have the go ahead from the doctors I am down for Skype sessions! Also, have you had a coregasm yet!?

  • truly_chewy303 Queen B 💫 (@truly_chewy303) reported

    So I work from home. The system crashed and the supervisors started a Skype call to practice roll play.. like couldn’t we all just wait for the issue to be fixed in peace lol

  • FerraroMikef29 Mike Ferraro (@FerraroMikef29) reported

    @SquawkAlley What system do you use for online interviews? Watching Affirm interview and audio is terrible. Sounds like Skype from 8 years ago. Do you do pre-interview testing?

  • oldspeak1 Simon Doherty (@oldspeak1) reported

    Isn't it weird that, when there was suddenly a humongous demand for their service, Skype faded away into nothing and Zoom, an unknown entity, was just there. Surely this should have been Skype's moment. Gutted.

  • deerockefeller David JC Francisco (@deerockefeller) reported

    Just said TFTI in my Skype call meeting and the room asked what is TFTI lmao Jerry if your old *** don’t invite we finna have problems. Respectfully

  • BUFFM0NA_BOT buff mona (@BUFFM0NA_BOT) reported

    Im a nonthreatening feminist boy, come talk to me on Skype! talk to me on skype about your problems as a woman i sympathize i’m taking womens studies. I took women’s studies I know what ‘systematic’ means.

  • jterwilligerii Jay D Terwilliger II (@jterwilligerii) reported

    @khaled_Jabr Especially for one on one calls I've never really had a problem with #Skype, but I know a lot of people have less than optimal experiences.

  • vteclimey Matthew Taylor (@vteclimey) reported

    @LavenderLady0 Honest question, as I'm sure you're not the only one feeling that way. Would getting a few folks onto a Skype call to talk rubbish for an hour be of any help?

  • BUFFM0NA_BOT buff mona (@BUFFM0NA_BOT) reported

    Im a nonthreatening feminist boy, come talk to me on Skype! talk to me on skype about your problems as a woman i sympathize i’m taking womens studies. I took women’s studies I know what ‘systematic’ means.

  • The_Koloss Oximodious (@The_Koloss) reported

    @Nitrado_EN had a server with you guys for three days now and barely been able to play because it just kicks me out after around three minutes, and put in a ticket, tried calling the hotline on the site, AND a skype call and cant get any help anywhere, so far so good ....

  • HelloFromMarcus Marcus Green (@HelloFromMarcus) reported

    For some reason skype updated today and popped up on my screen, I actually said "hello old timer!" to it before closing it down and using zoom.

  • HakunaJuanMata_ Tom (@HakunaJuanMata_) reported

    @vaekol You're mid but I'm down pretty bad so here it goes: I would swim up the Amazon with a 45 lb dumbell attached to my ******* using ellen degeneres' ***** as my only source of oxygen if It meant I could have a food date with you over skype on dial up internet connection

  • TechieCreek Matt is considering Hemborger (@TechieCreek) reported

    The cruelest reoccurring act my supervisors visit upon me is asking: "Oh Matt, could you set a Skype/Team meeting up for the end of the day? I want to have a little catch-up with you." it's like asking me to slap my own nametag onto the axe that's about to come down on my neck

  • josh_t_dean Josh Dean (@josh_t_dean) reported

    ... the cat was not an issue with Skype, but with software more hidden and fundamental in the computer itself. It is installed by Dell when the computer is put together, he found, which explains why it would come up not just on Skype but on Zoom ...

  • Goody_yum_yum Ponj (@Goody_yum_yum) reported

    @electricsmartie I expressed interest in a kitten last year, I asked if they'd do a Skype so that I could see the kittens and maybe see them from the garden (so not going inside) - no reply, they'd collected deposits from others and the ad was taken down the following day.

  • RobotoRuby RobotoRuby (@RobotoRuby) reported

    What have @Microsoft done to skype for business? It takes all the cpu when screen sharing, voice quality is muddy. If i was cynical I'd say It's like they have turned the wick down to force you onto teams. But that's just me. (kermit meme) #skype #MicrosoftTeams

  • Weeaboo__Bot Weeaboo Bot (@Weeaboo__Bot) reported

    Im a nonthreatening feminist drug dealer! talk to me on skype about your problems as a woman i sympathize i’m taking womens studies. I took women’s studies I know what ‘yaranaika’ means. Man I’m so horny today. Sorry.I’m sorry. I just came out and said it.

  • TheJamesBJones James B. Jones (@TheJamesBJones) reported

    @McCarron Reminds me of a time I had to do a live writing test for a studio over Skype. With a broken arm. I did not get the job.

  • aus1en Austen (@aus1en) reported

    @Skype I need a refund for my subscription last month that I didn't use due to technical issues

  • ricardo11997766 RB (@ricardo11997766) reported

    @SkypeSupport I am receiving calls from this contact: Group%20Maker! One ring and then this “number” desapear from the list! Can you help with this? Is a spam thing? TY

  • jeanni_art Jeanni Grant-Nelson (@jeanni_art) reported

    @Skype please help. I have a very distressed elderly friend who is isolating and has accidentally lost his Skype account and all contacts. He is extremely distressed and needs to speak to someone to help as online instructions only making it worse. Please help now. Today.

  • GeorgeOu George Ou (@GeorgeOu) reported

    @wirednot I would need to see some jitter plots that you can generate from doing fast pings. I hear all the time claims that Skype work fine while Zoom doesn't. When I further press the user for detail, they admit that Skype is also having issues. I would need to see hard data.

  • choose__wisley Kaytee Wisley (@choose__wisley) reported

    whenever i skype my parents, the first five minutes of the conversation is troubleshooting why i can’t see them & it’s always a user error