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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 12/12/2025 00:50

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Skype Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • TheSoloWandera Nasserian Onyeakachi Abena Nzama ✊🏾 (@TheSoloWandera) reported from Edenburg, Gauteng

    @mjmatodzi She's struggling w her Skype account and we must help her 😂🤣😂🤣 the delusion 🤣😂🤣😂

  • marybethwest Mary Beth West, MPRCA, APR, Fellow PRSA (@marybethwest) reported from Maryville, Tennessee

    @VictorVrsnik @Caanz @EllaMinty @i_kostopoulos @PRSA My outcry over these issues led the then-PRSA Nat’l Chair to hold a Skype call with my local PRSA chapter board in Knoxville, TN, where I live/work, in which she defamed my motives & professionalism (I was not present to defend myself). #PowerAndInfluence

  • GertsenPR GertsenPR 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@GertsenPR) reported from Canterbury, England

    @pickledpuffin @ElliotElinor We Skype weekly and often have problems it stops you can’t hear et

  • YorkiePug Sandy likes pugs, yorkies & Martin Freeman (@YorkiePug) reported from Blaine, Minnesota, Minnesota

    @221beees Drawful is fun! You wouldn’t wanna skype with me now, I look terrible right now 😅

  • hseidema Hans (@hseidema) reported from Prince Rupert, British Columbia

    @KalhanR You can call your voicemail number using Skype from desktop and use Skype's record call feature to save them as an mp3 on your computer. Then you can upload them to Google drive or any other cloud storage service.

  • PVSCO_ PVSCO (@PVSCO_) reported from Cape Town, Western Cape

    @GeorgeAvakian @whiteNiteDJ Nothing Skype can’t fix

  • slimegoon ☠️sammy☠️ (@slimegoon) reported from Le Mesnil-Amelot, Île-de-France

    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. Man I’m so horny today. Sorry. I’m sorry. I feel so bad. I just came out a

  • NotRapd2Tite ayoo manni yayo 🇯🇲🇵🇦 (@NotRapd2Tite) reported from South Laurel, Maryland

    I thought about coming back to Rochester until i pay down all my credit cards but I need a job BEFORE I get there... like tell your employer to Skype me 😂

  • selenarainxxx selena-rain (@selenarainxxx) reported from Las Vegas, Nevada

    @lydialovexxx when i was younger & use to house sit for these people I would do ***** skype dates with my long distance boyfriend. Found out later down the road they had cameras installed in their house 🙀 lmaooo!!!!

  • EJRD_Hou EJRD_Hou (@EJRD_Hou) reported from Houston, Texas

    @SkypeSupport I’m the creator of the group and /kickban is not working

  • VTBobF Bob F (@VTBobF) reported from Burlington, Vermont

    Skype problem gambling meeting coming up at 5pm eastern. Hit me or @JPWdel1955 for an invite! #recovery #onedayatatime #stigmafighter #stigmafree

  • alexjacksondir Alex Jackson (@alexjacksondir) reported from Honiton, England

    Also a special thank you to my partner in this particular crime @elainef99 who has been a total inspiration to me throughout the whole process and has put up with some terrible Skype problems and remote working solutions in order to make it happen.

  • CVCResearch CVC Research (@CVCResearch) reported from Melbourne, State of Victoria

    $MSFT Skype #skype has to be the worst ******* app ever. If you know your password, just answer 19 questions. If you don’t, no problem, just tell us when you lost your virginity, her name & 3 facts abt it. Seriously WTF. I need to make a call but will create a non-Skype account

  • mortuarygem Mortuary Gem (@mortuarygem) reported from Romford, England

    @LauraFrancesT If you need a hand or help with anything let me know! I might be far away but there’s always Skype or something we could do a revision session x

  • pauli_jorge Jorge Pauli Matos (@pauli_jorge) reported from Manhattan, New York

    @LegalizeitLala They should call it by their proper names. There's different farms just like ********. Krypto, Space X, Skype and many more. The problem is: they don't have any THC. They are big Bud's but very poisoning. They're called smokable buds which can be purchased on line sent by UPS.

  • Joniboyg Jonathan Garcia (@Joniboyg) reported from Manhattan, New York

    Currently trying to help some guy who has the same position as me, literally doesn't know how to share a screen through business's Skype..... Bruh how do you not know that is like the most used thing in corporate

  • dilribeiro DilRibeiro (@dilribeiro) reported from São Paulo, São Paulo

    @Plantronics I do love my headset but it’s just not working at all with Skype. I don’t know it the problem is with Skype or the macOS

  • BalGill2020 Balvinder Singh Gill (@BalGill2020) reported from Oxfordshire, England

    My parents love me deeply and want me home. They made an error because I am an entrepreneur not a psychopath. @garyvee i am active and read 4 hours a day and talk on skype. They thought i was talking to myself

  • bldngnerd Matt Hillyer (@bldngnerd) reported from Chicago, Illinois

    I think I found a fix for my Skype being broke by hyper-v. Reinstalling hyper-v to test. Wish me luck. I really need to be able to host virtsual machines on my laptop again.

  • kgcolor1016 KC (@kgcolor1016) reported from Westpoint Mobile Home Park, New York

    @gagal97 This happens a lot to my friends and I because we work with the military. My Mom missed two Christmases because she was deployed. Skype and FaceTime always help! 💛

  • kensy143 Mc_Mami (@kensy143) reported from Ocean Springs, Mississippi

    Lmao I kill myself sometimes. I’m online with a tech support agent and he’s accessing my computer trying to fix @skype. Can someone tell me why I was typing a message to him and erased it Bc I couldn’t remember how to spell a word... tbc

  • Shandelly22 shandel (@Shandelly22) reported from Tempe, Arizona

    now we’re on a work Skype call together and it’s just us while the other person went to the bathroom this is awkward...HELP

  • Falabs Abisoye Falabi (@Falabs) reported from Lagos, Lagos State

    @SkypeSupport Thanks for your response. My previous tweet with a screenshot shows the error I get whenever I attempt to install Skype from the link you shared. My using a @surface pro 3 64 bits for this. @shanselman @jongalloway @ife_okunoren have someone from @Skype team look into this

  • Stuart_Anderton Stuart Anderton (@Stuart_Anderton) reported from Bruton, England

    Messages to “”Everyone” about PC config changes aren’t usually popular. But this week’s instructions for disabling the unbidden and irritating@MicrosoftTeams login at startup has been well received. It’s as bad as @SkypeSupport

  • SizzleOndaBass Brown Skin Boi™ (@SizzleOndaBass) reported from Johannesburg, Gauteng

    Work wouldn't even be an issue, I'd just take my laptop, find a hot desk, Skype in if need be.

  • bendell Benjamin Dell (@bendell) reported from Farnborough, England

    @jamesjgill Lol i feel your pain. This is why I stopped using Skype a couple of years ago. The UX is just terrible.

  • VTBobF Bob F (@VTBobF) reported from Burlington, Vermont

    Skype problem gambling meeting coming up at 4pm eastern. Hit me or @JPWdel1955 for an invite! #recovery #onedayatatime #stigmafighter #stigmafree

  • ShirleyLusty Shirley Lusty (@ShirleyLusty) reported from Bedford, Massachusetts

    @SkypeSupport Tks @SkypeSupport. It was helpful, led me to the correct information and the problem was solved.

  • Bill_Canter Now...everything is 'exactly' different (@Bill_Canter) reported from Chevy Chase Village, Maryland

    @SkypeSupport @SkypeBusiness Too little. Too late. Some customer service 24 hours later!

  • ayeshacarley AYESHA👑 (@ayeshacarley) reported from Salford, England

    @DmiMorgan Also my mate got down to final two, I was with her when she was having her Skype call with the producers and the process.. there’s so much behind closed doors than what you see on screen, and that’s when I lost my ratings for it