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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 01/21/2026 11:05

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • pepsicore valentines pepsi! 💕 (@pepsicore) reported

    @SilvrSabl joss whedon be like 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 ba

  • xrelaht Bishop Ydstie-Smirnov🍦 (@xrelaht) reported

    @EricaCooper @rgay I just used it a few days ago and didn’t have any trouble. About 12 people on the call. Certainly better than the personal call I had on Skype the day before, which lagged and lowered the resolution horribly.

  • LadyJustice6910 TraderJill - (Pronouns: Meme Queen/Your Highness) (@LadyJustice6910) reported

    When you send payment, & your husband/wife is sending it for you, I have no idea who it's for unless they tell me who you are on Twitter. Please keep in mind your name is different on Twitter/skype/Venmo & I have to keep track of all 3. Please help me out & tell me who it's for!

  • amit73671302 amit (@amit73671302) reported

    @SkypeSupport Please help with ticket No. SIR2853955 for unlocking my skype ID

  • TWXNFIT Twan (@TWXNFIT) reported

    @lyndssss Unrelated—But my professor just threw the phrase “devils advocate” in the lecture & spoke on some bullshit immediately after. Skype school need to be taken down now.

  • Paestrol Paoes TRol (@Paestrol) reported

    In-person meetings help foster relationships in a way that Skype or conference calls often do not.

  • askleo Ask Leo! 💻 (@askleo) reported

    @robman50a Several possible reasons. First thing I would do, though, is try s different video chat (zoom, skype, etc) and see if the problem is there also.

  • joellerosexxx Joelle (@joellerosexxx) reported

    Hmm should I do some Skype and content for yall? Or do I just lay around since the day job my boss tried to kill me knowing I have arthritis in my knees 😟 walked up and down over 10 flights of stairs to do a tour of the building with the new system we got

  • LucioLopezGP Lucio L. (@LucioLopezGP) reported

    @NikiKovacs @motomatters @KTM_Racing I do really hate zoom, and so much used to cisco. The thing is that Webex is gonna need more bandwidth and could be a problem at circuits. Skype should be an alternative.

  • QazzySmash Qazzy [Smash 4 Specialist] 🌈 (@QazzySmash) reported

    @bumblebella_ nah skype tripped and fell down a flight of stairs

  • mirohundak Miro Hundak (@mirohundak) reported

    @GiryaGirl @AutSciPerson Compression won't help with clipping if the mic gain is too high at recording level. Communication apps like Skype and similar have auto-gain as a default option for mic recording, which can prevent clipping, so there's no good reason why a game couldn't have similar feature.

  • ELLEisforlosers Elle Nirvana (@ELLEisforlosers) reported

    He was so blue, it was practically purple today lmao. It didn’t help that I had Skype sessions so he had to listen to Me give other pets My attention. He still isn’t allowed to *** for Me yet.

  • TriestWL triest (@TriestWL) reported

    my dad was on a skype call and i was in the car with him while he was doing it, my dad told me it was an attorney talking and i set my phone down just to listen to him lol.

  • Crddda Crddda (@Crddda) reported

    @EarthquakeWolf @Asensii20 @discord skype is better than discord, all platforms are toxic, the earth is a rotating potato, my home heater is broken, my dad never gave me the attention i needed as a child, i forgot to take my schizophrenia meds this morning, i never called my grandma to check if he's okay

  • sadistsyn SYN† (@sadistsyn) reported

    ✨SERVICE INFORMATION✨ ————————————————— 1✨A minimum of a $20 tribute is REQUIRED before messaging me. No tribute ? NO reply. 2✨ I do offer Skype/Snapchat sessions. 3✨I don’t offer any ******. 4✨All kinks are welcomed but I do not offer sessions involving **********,

  • mxash_ Ash (@mxash_) reported

    help i just had a flashback to when i was like 14 and had a crush on an online mutual friend that hung around my old skype group and was a ✨massive✨ ******* to him as a result of said crush

  • jdclarknovelist 𝙹𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙳. 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚔 (@jdclarknovelist) reported

    @MisterLeaves I wouldn’t be opposed to having a 1 on 1 conversation. You will, of course, have to ask me again the day of the conversation, but only because Skype advises you to do so to “avoid legal issues.”

  • FeelitWorking aka James Bond (@FeelitWorking) reported

    @RobDamnDavis @MSFT365Status It's unusable most times in the UK, going as bad as Skype. That collapsed last year together with O365 and left many Gov offices offline. It's doing the same again now for many users. Poor service, slow, shared drives vanishing, proxy servers offline... useless and costly.

  • _Rbot_ Rooben.avi (@_Rbot_) reported

    Im in a skype call called actual Mishas please help me

  • b3idousgf haylie (beidous WIFE) (@b3idousgf) reported

    THE SKYPE EMOJI GIFS HELP ME

  • shackletonjones N Shackleton-Jones (@shackletonjones) reported

    Is anyone ever going to fix Skype or are we all just secretly hoping it will die?

  • SilverMoon1022 BlueMoon (@SilverMoon1022) reported

    I don't know if it's the jaws or skype... though I'm beginning to think it's skype since my jaws doesn't freeze, it literally freezes each and everytime I switch conversations. Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas on how to solve it/

  • Worldgirl1 Lucille 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 #FBPPR (@Worldgirl1) reported

    @Grinzing03 @Channel4News I do too & haven't seen them in almost 3 years. But it's too risky now & I accept the tradeoff; many others do too. Skype etc not ideal but do help with contact Unless UK & Europe, for that matter, accept short term annoyance of no int'l travel, we won't get control of this.

  • twinkletea_ ru✨ (@twinkletea_) reported

    our IT dept is such a joke honestly. our work emails are broken, MS teams doesn't work on our PCs, they've cancelled our skype contract, whenever we ring them we're like no. 72 in the queue, and they tell us to email them instead.. honestly, how? when ******* emails won't work!

  • a_rahimus Rahimus (@a_rahimus) reported

    Lots of rightful criticism against Skype for having a head start in the online calling space & still being lacklustre. But to me, Skype is now more an international *phone* calling service than online conferencing. It’s great at calling mobiles & landlines for decent prices.

  • HelloNowLeaving Eunice Hennion (@HelloNowLeaving) reported

    @DavidDTSS @tressiemcphd My kids think Skype's full name is "******* Skype" because I have issues almost every single time I use it.

  • the_valsharess The Spider Queen / Matron Mother (@the_valsharess) reported

    @DommeSupport1 Do you only do Skype? I’m not comfortable with that program because of its security issues.

  • Ben_Froedge Ben Froedge (@Ben_Froedge) reported

    @itswhitneymeyer @rgay It just plain works better for me. I've no had no problems with GM, but Skype was always worthless, and Zoom always seems to have lag/dropping for me.

  • thecianrice 𝙲𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚣𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 (@thecianrice) reported

    Anyone else have issues with Skype on MacOS constantly crashing? I only really have it for work stuff, but it's kinda always quietly crashing in the background.

  • RandRendArt Randall McCarley (@RandRendArt) reported

    @skchang @chamath Anything Cisco bought for consumers should be spun off. Some Microsoft acquisitions fit the Cisco problem like Skype. LinkedIn is losing life with niche competitors taking market share and would probably be better in it's own.