When showing off various new additions to its library, including the made-for-Netflix Marvel TV series Luke Cage and films like A Cinderella Story and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the streaming service Netflix was hit with a major outage on Saturday. Twitter users weren’t impressed…
The issues started, according to CNNMoney, just before 3pm Eastern Time and remained for roughly three hours. Many Netflix users posted their complaints on the microblogging site Twitter; in fact, Downdetector, which keeps account of online complaints about outages, recorded, from users globally on Saturday afternoon, over 13,000 posts about Netflix problems.
The timing wasn’t exactly brilliant for either Netflix or the service’s users eager to see recently-added content like the movies Titanic and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. However, Netflix acknowledged the outage at around 3:30pm, telling readers of its customer service Twitter page that “we are aware of streaming issues and we are working quickly to solve them.”
The company finally declared the issue resolved shortly before 6pm. For those Netflix users in the Apple ecosystem, the streaming service’s content can be watched on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.