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Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users

Posted by timothy on from the reset-the-counter dept.

CWmike writes "Skype continues to slowly recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post. Skype's outage began on Wednesday."

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  1. Help Desk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Operator: Can I help you?
    Skype: YES, all of our peer-to-peer servers just went down. We have 23 million users offline right now.
    Operator: Have you tried turning it off and then turning it on again?

  2. Re:Very serious this. by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why there's Twitter: "@911, need help, was watching football game, now choking on a pretzel, my address is 1600 penn" [140 char maximum reached]