Twitch is recovering from the first major outage of 2023. During the incident, the streaming site showed blank pages for accounts or “an error has occurred,” making it appear to some that a streamer had deleted their account.
The Twitch outage affected both desktop and mobile users, with iOS and Android users seeing an “error loading followed channels” when opening the app. The search feature also didn’t let Twitch mobile users navigate to streamers.
The issues started around 1:10 PM ET and Twitch marked the outage as resolved on the status page at 2:23 p.m. ET. During the incident, the company noted that the glitch “could manifest itself in chat not working, login issues, search issues, etc.”
We’ve reached out to Twitch to comment further on what might have caused today’s outage, and we’ll update you accordingly.
Update, Jan. 3, 1:50 PM ET: Article updated with the latest status update message.
Update, January 3, 2:41 PM ET: Updated to indicate that the outage is mostly over.
