Microsoft Teams outage hits thousands of users, reveals Downdetector

Microsoft Teams outage: Microsoft's Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Thousands of Microsoft Teams app users were hit by an outage on Friday, Downdetector reported. (AP)

Microsoft Teams outage: Microsoft's Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

"We've completed the failover in the EMEA region and service telemetry is showing some improvement. The failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor," Microsoft said in a post on social media platform X.

(UPDATE) 

Microsoft Teams services were restored on Saturday after a disruption blocked access to the messaging platform.

"After extended monitoring and mitigation efforts, we've confirmed that our Microsoft Teams service and features have been restored or have returned to optimal health," Microsoft said in its post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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