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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 12/20/2025 14:55

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Skype Issues Reports

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  • TechieCreek Matt is considering Hemborger (@TechieCreek) reported

    The cruelest reoccurring act my supervisors visit upon me is asking: "Oh Matt, could you set a Skype/Team meeting up for the end of the day? I want to have a little catch-up with you." it's like asking me to slap my own nametag onto the axe that's about to come down on my neck

  • josh_t_dean Josh Dean (@josh_t_dean) reported

    ... the cat was not an issue with Skype, but with software more hidden and fundamental in the computer itself. It is installed by Dell when the computer is put together, he found, which explains why it would come up not just on Skype but on Zoom ...

  • choose__wisley Kaytee Wisley (@choose__wisley) reported

    whenever i skype my parents, the first five minutes of the conversation is troubleshooting why i can’t see them & it’s always a user error

  • 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.

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

    THE SKYPE EMOJI GIFS HELP ME

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • truly_chewy303 Queen B 💫 (@truly_chewy303) reported

    So I work from home. The system crashed and the supervisors started a Skype call to practice roll play.. like couldn’t we all just wait for the issue to be fixed in peace lol

  • Dustymason_ dustymason (@Dustymason_) reported

    @curryspcworld I'm off down to Currys Battling the snow flurries New laptop to work from home Zoom calls so I'm not alone All you need is in store Or get it delivered to your door Helping us with all our needs Until the vaccines they succeed Off I go now to type With my daughter over skype

  • _Rbot_ Rooben.avi (@_Rbot_) reported

    Im in a skype call called actual Mishas please help me

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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!

  • deerockefeller David JC Francisco (@deerockefeller) reported

    Just said TFTI in my Skype call meeting and the room asked what is TFTI lmao Jerry if your old *** don’t invite we finna have problems. Respectfully

  • 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.

  • TheJamesBJones James B. Jones (@TheJamesBJones) reported

    @McCarron Reminds me of a time I had to do a live writing test for a studio over Skype. With a broken arm. I did not get the job.

  • 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.

  • FerraroMikef29 Mike Ferraro (@FerraroMikef29) reported

    @SquawkAlley What system do you use for online interviews? Watching Affirm interview and audio is terrible. Sounds like Skype from 8 years ago. Do you do pre-interview testing?

  • Paestrol Paoes TRol (@Paestrol) reported

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

  • GeorgeOu George Ou (@GeorgeOu) reported

    @wirednot I would need to see some jitter plots that you can generate from doing fast pings. I hear all the time claims that Skype work fine while Zoom doesn't. When I further press the user for detail, they admit that Skype is also having issues. I would need to see hard data.

  • RobotoRuby RobotoRuby (@RobotoRuby) reported

    What have @Microsoft done to skype for business? It takes all the cpu when screen sharing, voice quality is muddy. If i was cynical I'd say It's like they have turned the wick down to force you onto teams. But that's just me. (kermit meme) #skype #MicrosoftTeams

  • _Rbot_ Rooben.avi (@_Rbot_) reported

    Im in a skype call called actual Mishas please help me

  • TheLLLounge Dakota Abroad - Language, Culture, Veganism, Games (@TheLLLounge) reported

    I'm scheming with my student's mother to lie to my boss to get her money back. There was a Skype error that took up 75% of the time of the lesson to fix. I don't trust him to refund because he cares more about money than customer satisfaction.

  • robsmallshire Robert Smallshire (@robsmallshire) reported

    @PerryGibson_ I appreciate this is a co-ordination problem a much as anything else. Code clubs could choose to use tools which work on these more-accessible platforms. I have no idea why they chose Skype of all things. But here we are.

  • shackletonjones N Shackleton-Jones (@shackletonjones) reported

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

  • 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.

  • HakunaJuanMata_ Tom (@HakunaJuanMata_) reported

    @vaekol You're mid but I'm down pretty bad so here it goes: I would swim up the Amazon with a 45 lb dumbell attached to my ******* using ellen degeneres' ***** as my only source of oxygen if It meant I could have a food date with you over skype on dial up internet connection

  • Goody_yum_yum Ponj (@Goody_yum_yum) reported

    @electricsmartie I expressed interest in a kitten last year, I asked if they'd do a Skype so that I could see the kittens and maybe see them from the garden (so not going inside) - no reply, they'd collected deposits from others and the ad was taken down the following day.

  • 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.

  • 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.