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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 12/01/2025 18:30

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • Tophamt Tracy Topham (@Tophamt) reported

    @virginmedia Hi. I was just on a call with an agent (Clement) while he upgraded my broadband. I was on Skype and got cut-off during the call due to the instant upgrade. I wanted to thank him for his excellent customer service and apologise for being cut off. Thank you!

  • Pipe2DevNull Brad Evans (@Pipe2DevNull) reported

    Skype background problem solved.

  • Ladylib505 Lexi (@Ladylib505) reported

    After getting talked over multiple times on a call and confirming that the issue was the platform I have firmly decided Google meets is not the way to go. Can we please go back to Skype?? What happened to Skype??

  • CJirishlez CJirishlez (@CJirishlez) reported

    Thank you @Skype I had no way of calling @Verizon when my service was shut off & get a human until I used your trial voice calling on wifi I finally got to talk to a CS rep who helped me. I need my phone as I’m my partners caregiver & it’s vital I have service.

  • Marly40582263 Marly (@Marly40582263) reported

    @locorama @NEWS1130 Starbucks, etc., have had months to follow guidelines to keep people safe. I know my higher power doesn’t want me to take chances that will make my family or community suffer. If guidelines can be followed, why not offer service? If not, offer service via Skype, zoom, you tube

  • 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.

  • ewalsh_at_k Em (@ewalsh_at_k) reported

    @jmstudiosmac @roto_tudor @lyzl I was living abroad at that time and had to watch the funeral over Skype. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. My grandpa’s own brother couldn’t travel from Calif due to restrictions, and his sister almost couldn’t come from Chicago (to Indiana) b/c they started shutting down roads

  • IsebellaLiao Isebella Liao (@IsebellaLiao) reported

    Dear Friends,we are the big professional supplier. Delivery time only 6～13 days.Wholesale & Drop-shipping No MOQ No Setup Fee, No service cost, Delivery Worldwide Shipping. pls contact me by Skype or Wechat: isebellaliao

  • cristina3popa Cristina Popa (@cristina3popa) reported

    @1059TheRegion Can u ask fix it fill to fix the Skype on my laptop please? Vaughan Mills Road

  • ptsiogas4 Paris Tsiogas🚀 (@ptsiogas4) reported

    Apparently the new @Skype policy can let ANY random stranger (not friend) call you at the middle of the night! Very bad UX, intrusive and totally a reason to stop using this service and search for alternatives. Sadly it's not a bug it's a feature. #skype

  • dougom Douglas Moran (@dougom) reported

    @elysdir In a @nealstephenson mood I’ve wondered when Zoom or Skype or WebEx is going to offer masking software to disguise people’s appearance, voice, etc to help enforce more egalitarian behavior for things like job interviews.

  • elias105 Elias Ventura (@elias105) reported

    And I know this problem isn’t just limited to education. I’ve heard the stories of coworkers in the private sector who make 6 figures who don’t know how to use Skype or let alone open up a pdf. And Gen z gets way too much credit for being tech literate.

  • Ed_Solace Ed (@Ed_Solace) reported

    @PumpkinSpiceLet Skype is built into win 10 now though I can't say I've seen that issue before

  • HGSupport HostGator Support (@HGSupport) reported

    @cinemattson Hey Blake, we no longer have email support, if the chat window is not working out for you, you can always try calling or using Skype to call our support 1866.964.2867, we may also be able to help here on Twitter, just send us a DM and we'll be happy to help if we can. -Nick

  • LuchaGold Rey Alpha (@LuchaGold) reported

    @RoliverQueen_ Ah Kazaa aka a program that would be popular after Napster would shut down It's kinda crazy as well as some of the devs who made that would later on work on and create Skype

  • HannahrhES Hannah Helbert (@HannahrhES) reported

    @HM_Passport it's been three months since I applied and three weeks since I had my skype interview but I still haven't recieved my passport and it says it's still being processed? Can someone help with this please.

  • ZANTOSA1 ZANTOSA (@ZANTOSA1) reported

    I want to make a sub perform on skype and make them shove their fingers down their throat and suck them til they pull them out and have a big long thread of drool while I screenshare and overload their brain with porn.

  • WhatTheBit Stefan Constantine (@WhatTheBit) reported

    Seven minutes into the Windows Weekly podcast and they just announced they've ditched Skype and are now using an in-house webRTC solution. When a show dedicated to Microsoft ditches Skype, you know your product is terrible.

  • wokat wokat. (@wokat) reported

    @DavidCook1959 @biologistimo Sane with mine. I once thought it a good idea to give my Hexe to a neighbour while on a skype interview. When I brought her back down three flights of stairs, unmoving, I only said “your heart? ja, mein, too.” her heart was racing so hard 😳 since then im just borrowing her keyb.

  • RagoneAugust August Ragone (@RagoneAugust) reported

    @DerCryptaxis We weren't able to shoot one of BRAVE due to the covid shut down in California back in March. We were hoping that there would be a break in April, but as we know, that didn't happen. We considered doing it via Zoom or Skype, but the quality would be awful, so we just gave up.

  • ArtistFailure there will be no horses (@ArtistFailure) reported

    @charistemp in friendsim he just pops into a church service via troll skype

  • saxmagc93 Robby Bright (@saxmagc93) reported

    I don't watch much @CNN but I'm curious if they have nearly as many problems with #Webex as @MCNBC has with #Skype. I get why they use Skype, but holy crap is it unreliable! The lag and video dropouts are almost unwatchable.

  • Arthurmbaka Mtu wa Ajabu (@Arthurmbaka) reported

    @JKNjenga 1. Network issues 2. Power issues 3. Delegates who mute & go to other business 4. Platform issues e.g skype causing overheating 5. Lack of connection as you can't benefit from positive pheromones; we are strangers to each other months down the line

  • brandonransom 🥸 (@brandonransom) reported from Petersburg, Alaska

    @tobaccodad Until you’re doing a double ender and the guest has terrible audio, so you have a use the Skype audio and release a pile of garbage to an audience of angry nerds

  • BlueTieCasual Johnson 'Blue' Siau (@BlueTieCasual) reported

    I bought a webcam with a built-in mic for my parents to use for Skype. Now only the mic work, but I chalked it up to age. Until I searched and others have the same issue? Seems to be a Windows update / driver that broke it.

  • sasshole The Blowhole Innocence Project (@sasshole) reported

    (I only visited because I had a Skype doctor’s appointment and Internet was down—I kept my distance etc)

  • jackf723 Santa Scrooge (@jackf723) reported

    @ScottLawlor12 Yes. MeetNow is Microsoft's gradual roll-in of Skype's voice and video calling features into Windows itself and/or Microsoft Teams. Now that Teams is available at all license tiers, Skype is officially shutting down at some point next year.

  • NonTrotski Woney For Nothing (@NonTrotski) reported

    @takkun169 @Smasher390 They would if they thought it would be worth the money but they actually tried doing a lot of those things with the Wii U (it even had its own Free Skype-type Service built in!) and no one cared

  • jvmediadesign Sherry Holub - Wizard of Design (@jvmediadesign) reported

    Skype message of the day from my 79yo mom who lives down the street from me. Have to do this one in 3 parts so you get the whole story: "kitty & I were standing by the bottom of the front steps watching your dad drive up with the cart. 5 minutes later kitty comes by with a mouse.

  • RamblingGuy89 RamblingGuy89 (@RamblingGuy89) reported

    There were some days I just didn't feel like being on Skype to chat with my close friends because I was in such a shitty mood I didn't want to bite one of their heads, if they decided to make playful roast banter at me. I knew, in that mood, I'd only cause more issues. Part 7