Brief
Spotify and Anthropic’s Claude face simultaneous outages
Both services experienced widespread outages, with Spotify confirming on X and Anthropic noting degraded performance on its status page.
By Felo News Desk · Published
On Tuesday morning, Spotify and Anthropic’s Claude AI platform were both reported down by thousands of users, according to Lifehacker and Downdetector. Spotify confirmed the issue in a post on X, writing: "We're aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!" Anthropic noted degraded performance affecting Claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, and said it would provide an update as soon as possible. The outages occurred around 9:31 a.m. ET, with the last batch of reports arriving at 10:24 a.m. ET. No cause or resolution timeline has been announced yet, and it is unclear whether the two incidents are related.
Key facts
- Spotify confirmed the outage on X (lifehacker.com)
- Anthropic reported degraded performance on its status page (lifehacker.com)
- Downdetector showed roughly 40,000 reports for each platform (lifehacker.com)
- Outages began around 9:31 a.m. ET and reports continued until 10:24 a.m. ET (lifehacker.com)
Sources
- [1] lifehacker.com — originally reported as “Spotify and Claude Are Both Down”
