Twitch outage on 21 October 2026
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“Identified Emotes Issues”
On 21 October, Twitch had a major outage from 18:34 to 19:05 UTC, lasting 31 minutes, during which emotes did not work for some users. The status page opened the incident at 18:33, reported a fix in place at 19:04, and marked it resolved at 19:07. Bitbucket, Strava, Hostinger, Sentry and Musixmatch also reported problems around the same time.
Twitch’s own incident page ↗- When
- 18:34–19:05 UTC
- How long
- 31 min
- Incident open on its page
- 18:33–19:07 UTC
- Twitch, 30 days before
- No other outages
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 138 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Resolved
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Twitch’s official status page at status.twitch.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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