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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 01/24/2026 11:00

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • Imoteda Chef Imoteda (@Imoteda) reported

    When she was about 3/4 yrs old he promised to video call her every wednesday. He did good for like three weeks and then started ghosting and making excuses. For months my kid would sit on the stairs near the study waiting to hear that skype call that never came. Broke me down.

  • theory David E. Wheeler (@theory) reported

    Sometime in the last six months or so, the controls for Skype/Zoom/Team meetings disappeared from the iPhone Home Screen. I have to unlock to unmute and talk now. Super annoying on my walks. Where can I fix this?

  • philchamp_ phil (@philchamp_) reported

    @fmarksimon I actually did get a support chat going who solved the Skype issue but has now given me MS log in issues instead!🤬

  • 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.

  • cole_eliot Eliot Cole (@cole_eliot) reported

    if any mates wanna get their objectifying off their chests I'm available for thoroughly shallow skype calls! here to help. yes. they *are* ******* fit!

  • Brandon071991 Human Atm (@Brandon071991) reported

    Anyone willing to humiliate me and degrade me leaving me with nothing at all possibly humiliating me on Skype Infront of my family wanna be extremely humiliated wanna be looked down on

  • young_kahlil MeChelle. (@young_kahlil) reported

    Literally once my Skype turns green my boss bombards me with IM’s and emails. And I..........just respond ok or ignore it. Send me one email or schedule one 30 minute meeting. Please don’t talk to yourself in my inbox working through problems Mandark get a chalk board.

  • keelyvalentine Trophy Waifu ☆Keely Valentine (@keelyvalentine) reported

    @chelseachavis Let’s do it on Skype. I need help writing and we can work on your dance 😭

  • GBagnel Bagnel (@GBagnel) reported

    @SkypeSupport fix discord bro. many virus

  • beatlesonbankin G Stockus (@beatlesonbankin) reported

    @hmeisler because the economy is shutting down again, reopening, or it just doesn't really matter...it's today's Skype, er, Facetime, er...nvm

  • GoddessKay99 GoddessKay (@GoddessKay99) reported

    @goddessjaydax “I want a Skype drain” down payment first. No? Ok well bye then my time is money

  • pliixlyx plix 🍰 spring semester arc 😔🌸 (@pliixlyx) reported

    missing my first class bcos my professor decided to use a different software, one that I can't log into, despite an hour of tech support. Matt B is working past his shift bcos my professor decided to use Skype instead of zoom. i hope all the ppl in my class have the same issue.

  • WHBrigzy WHBrigzy (@WHBrigzy) reported

    @BandemicDave @metpoliceuk Have to remember Robbie has done his little silly talk shows via ZOOM/Skype whatever he uses from home and watchalong online with DT when they came up with symptoms! He clearly thinks hes special when hes proven he can do this online! @YouTube also need to bring Robbie down!

  • keawijkstra Klaske Wijkstra (@keawijkstra) reported

    @olabini @xotoxot I followed the history of Wire. Originally it was meant as a replacemnet for Skype. Later it became a chat service, encrypted with only a few logs. Snowden favored Signal and the majority of the privacy scene followed this, Wire did not get a chance. Therefore they sold it.

  • mfilipov Metodi 😷 Filipov (@mfilipov) reported

    @atrupar Can @cnn just stop using @Skype rarely there is call withoutt video or audio issues.

  • indiffboolean JaneB🏳️‍⚧️ (@indiffboolean) reported

    Skype really is a trash application. Oh you don't have audio I know the fix, mute everything. If everything is muted no audio is a expected :)

  • DKief11 Dan Kiefer (@DKief11) reported

    @JackPosobiec Good luck! We tried to warn everyone what was happening in #Pennsylvania, no one wanted to listen as we’ve been locked down by our dictator @TomWolfPA, watching our loved ones die via Skype, not allowed to attend their funerals, and watching businesses crumble while state....

  • ArvuAndBoxCrew Arvu And the Box Crew (@ArvuAndBoxCrew) reported

    Event viewer shows errors with Skype (which I don't even use) There's also several attempts to install windows updates it seems, and when I check, it appears to be up to date.

  • REDROOMCURSE O)_(O (@REDROOMCURSE) reported

    help wheres that skype emoji where its crying but its all bloodshot and scary looking i need it

  • Denis69497556 Denis (@Denis69497556) reported

    Can the Skype call to your service team be made on wifi from South Africa at no cost ?

  • BlueBell_hoyle Bluebell Hoyle (@BlueBell_hoyle) reported

    @Manalyzer131 You lot here and in the corner also help make it more bearable :) I haven't been able to hug n kiss any of my kids since March 2020 - that's the worst part. SKYPE calls just don't cut it. Thank gawd for the internet and Netflix though, it's all keeping me sane 🥰

  • christiancable Christian Cable (@christiancable) reported

    At least 3% of working from home is doing terrible dances to the skype ringtone

  • DaleNorth Dale North (@DaleNorth) reported

    What I've learned taking a million Zoom/Skype/Google conference calls this past year: If I pull my COVID hair up I always get a lot of "oh wow" type comments. But if I leave it down they either say nothing or even say that I'm looking well! I figured it would be the opposite!

  • TheObserver96 DiO (@TheObserver96) reported

    @NilkadN Windows updates are basically malware at this point, last year an update secretly installed Skype and put it on auto-start, it also tried to force me to use Edge, and Windows updates also just like to **** up with my settings and cause driver issues.

  • baewiththepower ✨syl✨ (@baewiththepower) reported

    @sarahsee_c all the ******* time. yesterday i sent a message (via my work computer on skype) to my coworker about skincare stuff (specifically was talking to her about barrier repair for an issue she’s having) then somehow got into botox. checked my phone a minute later and had ads for both

  • NiranjanAjit Ajit Niranjan (@NiranjanAjit) reported

    @GloriaDickie i really like it! it's free, works internationally and you don't need to download anything, which was always the problem I had when suggesting skype calls

  • Kingstyyy Jordan =) (@Kingstyyy) reported

    I miss high-school logging into skype playing league with the boys. Mid game packing the really shitty grenade grinder with ****, grinding it all up. Packing my hand me down glass bong. Times was simpler

  • JBitature Jojo (@JBitature) reported

    In almost all skype/zoom interviews on news or podcasts there's always books in shelves in the background, this psychological hack to prime me into thinking the person whos speaking is smart is not working. with me you start from 0

  • peterrowlett Peter Rowlett (@peterrowlett) reported

    @christianp @k_houston_math ...how or having the equipment, which has improved immeasurably. (Like how I used to hate when someone said 'let's meet over Skype' because it always meant 30 mins of tech problems, but not now everyone is good at it.)

  • tiff_higgins Tiffany Higgins -Complying with lockdown joyously! (@tiff_higgins) reported

    @GloriaDickie I don't. Same here--they'll even send me a Zoom link. Now I say video is not necessary, could we do a regular call, I'll call them, and if they have privacy issues we could do Skype as a regular call. They all have agreed to the regular phone call once I started that approach