Except I’m on skype right now talking to my one contact who is also on skype. Everyone else though, yeah, they crashed and stuff.

It’s back up for me at 11:56 a.m. Eastern time U.S.

I’m not really sure about your statement that Twitter has gone insane. Skype isn’t trending in London/UK/USA/Worldwide as of 4:55pm.

By the headline I was expecting to see a Fail Whale as people rushed to Twitter to IM each other rather than be on Skype…

Would be helpful if your articles had timestamps on them so readers can work out when this might have occurred

Down for me and all my clients. I own a company that teaches English over Skype so I’m really seeing it. Luckily our schedule is light because of the holidays.

Still down for me on the West Coast…
need it for video conference with Europe…

“Of course what’s so funny is that so many of us now use Twitter DM (direct message) and perhaps even Facebook IM as a sort of alternative “Skype-a-like” IM platform that there are now potential alternatives.”

I don’t think so.

@chris it will be trending now Mashable and Cnet just tweeted about it give it some time

how come my friends, which are like 7km away, are talking to each other via skype right now and im still trying to login?

It’s down in the UK.
#Justsaying

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Good point, though not my dept.

working for me over in Amsterdam…

Their forum seems to be down as well. That said, I’ve been on a skype call for the last 2 hours. Skype to skype.

Unable to login and/or call the skype test call here.

I had no idea how much we relied on skype for day-to-day. I am going to start looking into a backup for instances like this. We’ve lost 2 hours of productivity so far.

I agree with Mr. Kristopher Chavez. I am waiting for 2 hours now. I have to call my client in USA & Canada and I can’t do that because I use only skype to make international calls.

As an alternative to Skype, try Freephone2phone.com (http://freephone2phone.com if you’re in the US. Pick up your phone, dial a local number, make unlmited, free 10 minute calls to over 50 countries, landlines primarily. From your mobile just dial 1646 500 8620. Easy, no brainer….

I’m a Skype Out customer spending $400 each month. I’m not complaaining because it doesn’t happen often, and there’s a perfectly good alternative, its called the telephone. TechCrunch, please stop reporting every online service breakdown like its a violation of our human rights. Technology fails, just like people.

We are also a paid skype subscriber – I use it for the IM function mostly however – so the telephone doesn’t solve my problem. I’m sure they will get it back up soon. I love skype and think it’s a great product.

Skype’s been down all morning for me on the West Coast. But like someone else said earlier, it’s not like I can’t just pick up the telephone and do business the old fashioned way or communicate by email.

If you’re so reliant on Skype that your business goes offline when Skype goes down, you need to re-evaluate how you’re doing things (IMO).

Down at 12:53 EST, been down for over an hour.

switzerland as well

not usually one to critique articles on TC but this whole statement is very silly and should be retracted:

Of course what’s so funny is that so many of us now use Twitter DM (direct message) and perhaps even Facebook IM as a sort of alternative “Skype-a-like” IM platform that there are now potential alternatives.

1. Better alternatives existed long ago in the days when ICQ and AIM were dominant. They included things like file transfer.

2. These web-based clients you mention do not allow long chats (in the case of Twitter), file transfers, calls or video calls so how are they exactly alternatives? Because they do real-time IM? Maybe IRC private msg is a Skype alternative too then?

My company is spread across 3 countries and we are hoping Skype comes up ASAP so we can get back to business as usual. In the meantime, we are using Gtalk.

Anyone agree this might have to do with the IPO of Skype. Of the MIllions of users less than 10% actually use the pay service. These types of forums will only drive up the IPO price

Many problems in Italy too….just a post in Italy:
http://www.webmasterpoint.org/news/skype-non-funziona-problemi-oggi-22-dicembre_p38157.html

In this news, the author explain different problems based on different versions….so if you use google traslate you can read it very easy.

Bye

Federica ( Italy )

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Skype not working for me more then 2hrs. why its happen? ebay not good now?

ouch! poor Skype. especially with competition from things like Google Voice getting stronger (ChromeOS for instance seems to have it baked in, but no skype option yet…)

It seems skype is down worldwide – I was staying online while my friends had problem with it, now I’m not online ethier.. it seems that one by one user is switched off anyway I want my skype back!

Skype still down 1:13 Eastern Time USA

Big-Company-Syndrome = “not my department”… how is the AOL integration going

I wish people wouldn’t have heartattacks when services go down. It happens to everyone, even Google. Relax and enjoy life, people.

Guys, Im an “everyday” skype user and I really need an alternative for Skype. Can anyone suggest me pls ?

Skype is back right now in Eastern US (Washington DC). Yeahhhh!

Ops! down again

Is it down because Obama needs to install all the decryption and monitoring s/w? Strange timing, anyway.

Guys – Anyone have a real alternative for vedio calling other dan skype?????

Google talk, Windows Live Messenger and many more alternatives.

you can use gmail videochat

I wish more people in my network used skype. FB chat is the 90% dominate form of communication here.

LOL @ SKYPE

If our cellphones were down this long there would be riots in the streets.

Will we be compensated for down time?

OK guys so what are the alternatives in Europe for free or cheap calls?
Google Voice doesn’t really work here.
VoipBuster after years in the game is still very bad quality free calls option.

Anyone?
Or say, who’s department is it…?

Skype still down for all version of install on the PC as of 18:50 in the UK.

However my mobile phone version of skype is still connecting and am in call on it with one of my New Zealand friends atm.

Still down for us Toronto Canada ! 1:53PM EST

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And I thought I forgot my password!

@Skype tweeted a link to information on the downtime: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html?cm_mmc=PXTW|0700_B6-_-downtime-20101222. Unfortunately, the blog seems to be down too: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html?cm_mmc=PXTW|0700_B6-_-downtime-20101222

Nevermind, link seems to work now: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/skype_downtime_today.html

Down in Angola since around 1745hrs

I use this with my production staff for YouTube content and other productions. We have a lot going on to crank up the new year and we need this fixed ASAP. Will it be a couple of hours, or are we looking at a couple of days here?

Try ooVoo, good and very similar to Skype and free

glad i still have a yahoo voice account, and kept paying bill to keep my phone number!

Seen this on the Skype blog:

Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate.

Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.

Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.

What are we doing to help? Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes’ as fast as they can, which should gradually return things to normal. This may take a few hours, and we sincerely apologise for the disruption to your conversations. Some features, like group video calling, may take longer to return to normal.

Stay tuned to @skype on Twitter for the latest updates on the situation – and many thanks for your continued patience in the meantime.

No Skype in Texas USA

still love skype though, have several phone in / phone out accounts and its great for small business, i use my yahoo voice once every 4 years, when skype is down!

LET’S ALL STAY LOGGED OUT – THEN THEY WILL REALLY BE BAFFLED BECAUSE IT WILL BE FIXED, BUT NOONE WILL BE ON IT LOL.

Skype is back up for me.

I was able to access Skype and make a few calls for about an hour, but now it’s down again. Virus, sabotage, server problem, or just government intervention as usual [read: censorship of free speech]?

still down…
happy holidays from skype….

Skype is down in the Balkans too.No Skype in Macedonia. It’s a bigger problem.

‘like’ button is gone too from this thread….

Skype down also in Dresden, Germany. Over the day I had the feeling that my internet connection has been just too low to connect, but arriving back at Dresden it became all to clear.

it is not fun when it is down!

Skype is down and they are trying to fix this. It’s gonna take around 12-24 hours. They have problems with authentication system. So I guess they got a bullseye with their slogan ” take a deep breath “…Coz we will have to wait for a while

I need skype to talk to my daughter in Italy!!!! This is horrible I have been unable to get in touch since this morning! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

I have a long-distance-relationship. I can’t talk to my boyfriend and that’s horrible.
So in Austria (Graz) Skype doesn’t work either. ;(

Still down in SF. the worst part was the information blackout. For a while this morning, it was impossible to know if the issue was with skype or some problem with my own network.

I was getting weird messages that skype was not supported on a “private network” for a bit. those seem to have dissapeared.

I signed out, and cannot sign back in.

good times!

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Skype is totally down for me. I pinged this article as there is lot’s of activity here, in mine: http://eyeinform.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/skype-is-down/

Twitter was down at 3:10 pm EST, but now back to normal.

Hi! I’m in Argentina and Skype is down too.

If you need to do some meetings you can try WWC: http://www.wormholeit.com/wwc , it’s pretty easy to use.

Give it a try, it’s free for a month for unlimited meetings.

wow, is not so funny anymore, come on guys just fix it wherever you are…. I’m writing from Portugal and i guess we still dont have SKYPE in all over Europe. WTF is going on? When is it gonna come out? ah?

We hope that skype engineers will not need a
“‘tera-supernodes” in the futur !
best regards , yassinov

No Skype in Brazil either.

Down in Antigua as well

Skype’s working for me again! I was able to log in! (:

No Skype in Moscow.

Skype down all day today on swedish Westcoast as well…Stockholm and Gothenburg too. Don´t know about the rest of the country.

hi,every body skype is very good quality.skype engineer work to improve more good quality.in germany skype problem come evening at 5:00 pm.
how possible any big company can problem.do not worry next few hour skype come with good quality.

Ugh, Skype allowed me to log in but it’s completely crashed.

Oh no… Skype has definately gone kaputski, here in Aus!

Can we please call a moratorium on “Skype’s down here, too” comments? Seriously, enough with the clutter. How bout you just wait until Skype IS working for you to say something?

Well lets hold it off till skype is working for each region. Seeing as diff areas of the globe have been going down at diff times.

Still down in Denmark and Bulgaria

Serbia too.

hey watch videos how skype down skype down

There’s no better time to move out of skype and move in to XMPP/Jabber.

^_^

The problem is that every new version that comes out is worse than the version before. Skype 5 has so much annoying bloat it’s almost unusable and it’s even forced down the throat of users prefering 3.6 or 4.2 – the auto update setting is regularily ignored. Way to go, Skype.

Still down here in Australia at 10.15AM AEST… I wonder how long it will be before we’re back online.. our business relies on Skype for phone calls

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Please someone help with this TECH Issue. My husband is in Iraq, and the only communication we have with him is SKYPE……….My children are sad, I am worried and there only a few days til Christmas……….We got Skype JUST SO the kids coudl open presents with their Daddy and now they won’t even be able to talk to him………COME ON SANTA!!!!!!!!!!

Intermittent success for the last couple of hours. it’s offline right now.

i think skype is conecting millions of people all over the word, the last time it was down is more than 2 years ago, i think skype do mutch better than my phone provider, ore you think different?

marcus
utrecht
the netherlands

Gotta give it to Skype. Many years of fabulous operation, computer based and mobile phone. Great updates with many diff features. Free use, who can knock that?

We know they are having a problem now, and it couldn’t come at a worse time sure it being Christmas. But give them the time and chance to amend w/e mistake was made. With people flickering on and off over the glove, we can be assured that work is being done and can only hope that lil Santa Skype comes to the community to let us with distance problems can be together on this special time of year.

globe*

i think skype is conecting miljons off people all over the world, the last time it was down is more than 2 years ago, i think skype do mutch better than my phone provider, ore you think different?

marcus
utrecht
the netherlands

Still down in the UK at 3:20 am and I’m off to bed fed up waiting. Hopefully we will have a lil action post waking.

Is a “supernode” bullshit for we got hacked?

sounds to me like they got hacked

you are so right that’s what i think hacked They insisted we have version 5 maybe rthey should have left well alone and let users decide if they want a newer version

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Try downgrading, then.
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it is 11Am in san Francisco, and Skype is back up.

Too bad , skype was down, alot of terrible phone calls. Good that it is back.

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Any problem with skype today ????

My skype says “skype has stopped working”, can’t even open it, and the skype website is down, and facebook chat too. Anyone has the same problems as me? Pls comment or like if you do.

I do.

Hey, thx, good to know, got the same problem, website is off.

Yes Skype does down today… what the …… guys….

skype sucks

Chattp is up and working. Try it out if your Skype is down. http://chattp.com

yes my skype gone down 26 May 2011 at 10 30 am

..Where’s my skype??? It’s going on second day now…Help!!!!!

Skype is down – lets go golfing! Sorry Boss!

..My skype has been down for more than a week…What the!@#$% is going on?? Anyone know ??? thx It won’t let me sign in …

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Wow, that much effect for Skype, I heard rumors about them selling, I hope they wont, pretty successful company.

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