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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 01/14/2026 10:15

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • 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

  • itjustwontlast FN GetRidOfThatBaby (@itjustwontlast) reported

    @Furious_Stylez6 @souljaboy When did Skype come out? AOL instant messanger with video? You thinking apple invented anything = down bad.

  • 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.

  • arya22 Aryaaa (@arya22) reported

    @NHS_HealthEdEng Good Morning! I have been advised to upload documents for verification for an Application-Cannot login to the website at all. I don’t have a Contact on Telephone/ Teams or Skype to ask. Email replies have repeated the same instructions which aren’t working.Thanks

  • sages_tv Saulo Germano (@sages_tv) reported

    @grohsfabian Man i need your help, i sent msg via skype

  • obtuse_monk 🚪👁‍🗨🃏 ↘️ spOOPy oBTusE ~ mRultraDead) (@obtuse_monk) reported

    so the monitor was not causing my PC crash. it was definitely, EITHER, skype itself, or the background intelligent Transfer "service". I killed both and have had perfect stability since. BUT i may purchase a 2nd asus free sync monitor and put this bigger one on back shelf

  • GrahamGords1001 Gords, Liberalist #PBFYYC (@GrahamGords1001) reported

    @SimonMagus @_HelenDale We have a server purely for me and the kids to communicate if gaming, we're all in the same house, but it saves shouting up and down stairs. It's much more useful than using in game chat, but that's not its only use, just one of the more obvious ones, it works better than skype

  • MarkThompStuff Mark Thompson (@MarkThompStuff) reported

    @AndrewTRoycroft My 2014 desktop iMac has the very same sporadic issue on Zoom and Skype - what the mechanics used to call an "intermittent fault" when they couldn't find the answer!

  • geoffwhiteart Geoff White (@geoffwhiteart) reported

    @Skype hi I want to reactivate my credit but no longer use the email I set up with. I’ve complete two account recovery requests but can’t be recognised, I need help. I use an email that I was notified about the credit.

  • 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

  • kiwifindom 𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐃 (@kiwifindom) reported

    i’d do skype sessions to help reimburse my stolen **** but they stole my fckn computer so like *******

  • luthorscanary kal 🐓 (@luthorscanary) reported

    the kid i usually babysit just called me on skype and asked for help with her english homework. i have wayhaught and carmilla drawings on my door and she just asked me if that was my girlfriend and me. i said no and her mother said “its just a picture that shows love” 🥺

  • gjfitzgerald Gary FitzGerald (@gjfitzgerald) reported

    So DFAT can't use Skype or WhatsApp or any other modern free communication to help talk to Australians stranded overseas, this government is so bloody backward

  • 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

  • hmarty8 Heidi (@hmarty8) reported

    My Skype meeting at work this morning was really quiet and I thought they just didn’t have much to talk about, but after another meeting I think my computer was having audio issues? And now I’m anxious because they probably think I wasn’t paying attention or something 😔

  • raduneacsu Radu Neacsu (@raduneacsu) reported from Rigaud, Québec

    @MoAlkhalafPhD I would have never changed if they didn't force the sharing of data. The problem is I also use it for some work... I'm ok using FB / IG since I don't do any business on their platforms and I chose what I share Would do the same with Skype or Teams if they started using my data

  • khwezi_d Wandile Dlamini ❤️ (@khwezi_d) reported

    @Poison__Apple Thank you man. I have a Microsoft account. I have used Skype before sekutsi i was struggling to login nyalo but i am trying something out. Ngstsi kuyalunga

  • natmiletic Nat Miletic (@natmiletic) reported

    @evavic44 Tries to open it via Skype or another phone service you have configured

  • 7leaguebootdisk Death will not release you (@7leaguebootdisk) reported

    @gravislizard One of my favorite podcasts, in the first 50+ episodes, had all kind of issues, like 10 minute dropouts because Skype failed, and it didn't get edited out. Really smooth is nice, but good content can win.

  • JohnLennyPenny John Lenny (@JohnLennyPenny) reported

    @_alex_joshua Zoom is ******* stupid, use Discord, Skype, or Google Meets. Not some shitty web service no one heard of a year ago

  • steff_lancaster Steff Lancaster (@steff_lancaster) reported

    @FUPA_G0DKILR420 Hey... XH naffed up & deleted a video (twice) in error, then someone was using my pictures for premium Snapchat/Skype. Which pissed me off so I fell outta love with being there... There are a few galleries i have loaded this last 6 months, no videos though.

  • kel14bt Kellie (@kel14bt) reported

    Anyone out there good with Skype & emails? Need help trying to change the email address attatched to Skype. 😬

  • UlsterUniISD Ulster Uni ISD (@UlsterUniISD) reported

    Skype for Business issues should now be resolved. Our service provider will monitor for the remainder of the day. @UlsterUniLib @UlsterUniODL

  • wee_bubsxox Carly Stafford (@wee_bubsxox) reported

    Right naw I canny deal with this. Woman kills her bf n the mum n stepdad of the bf are Skype calling and telling her they love her while she's serving 60 years for murdering their son. She's singing them songs down the phone man 🤯🤯 #iamkiller #Netflix

  • FlorenceHazrat FortunateFlorinda (@FlorenceHazrat) reported

    @Skype need help to access my account out of which I've been locked for some reason (and cannot remember the email or password). Can you advise?

  • Death2TheGrave 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍2𝕿𝖍𝖊𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊Horror (@Death2TheGrave) reported

    You tried to humiliate me on this account. That shows how you really feel. You didn't care that I asked so we could have Skype again you put the phone down on me with no thought to anyone. You can make me look bad all you want that has zilch chance of fixing this.

  • tarendell Tom (@tarendell) reported

    @SkypeSupport have you been able to look at the screenshots to help me figure out why the money was credited back?

  • PleasureEthics Marie Donelly (@PleasureEthics) reported

    It doesn't support Skype, so we faffed around and downloaded another and sent her an invite. She didn't respond to the invite. Then they said on the answerphone they'd get my children to fix it. The same children they both do nothing for. #SmartModel

  • ThomasC12240927 Thomas Connors (@ThomasC12240927) reported

    Darrenlegal90 is my skype and it's my office account, ******* very ******* dangerous to use as it gets checked for billable hours, but i am ******* plunging so ******* hard this morning i don't ******* care...GOING DOWN HARD....#RELAPSE

  • 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.