Slack is DOWN: Worldwide outage hits 1000’s of customers who depend on the messaging service for enterprise

Slack is down for 1000’s of customers worldwide, stopping individuals from speaking with fellow collogues, potential purchasers and different companies.

Points appeared round 12:30pm ET and are plaguing the app and web site.

The messaging app has change into a staple for a lot of companies – about 80 p.c of Fortune 100 corporations depend on the service.

Whereas the issue is unknown, Slack exhibits an ‘incident’ with logging in for some customers on its standing dashboard.

Slack is down for 1000’s of customers worldwide, stopping individuals from speaking with fellow collogues

Launched in 2014, Slack has step by step emerged because the world champion within the race for skilled messaging platforms. 

Slack has over 20 million lively customers as of 2023, however the firm noticed a large improve in 2020.

Between March 10 and March 25, concurrent customers rose from ten million to 12.5 million.

The platform is now in style amongst main corporations like Goldman Sachs and Comcast Grubhub, which have greater than $3 billion in income.

DownDetector screens on-line outages and exhibits customers within the US, UK, Canada, Asia and South America are experiencing issues.

The outage is impacting loading for channels and threads, together with the flexibility to ship messages.

Slack has change into a staple for a lot of companies, particularly since many have moved to a hybrid system