Skype Down: Skype ‘Gradually’ Returns to Normal

Skype is still down for most users following an entire day of outages.
Skype Down: Skype ‘Gradually’ Returns to Normal
Skype is confident that its engineers will return the program to normal in a few hours. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Skype is confident that its engineers will return the program to normal in a few hours. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Skype, the popular Internet phone and instant messaging program, still had not recovered for most users by Wednesday night at 11:45 p.m. EST. At that time, only 1.5 million Skype users were seen online using a New York City IP address.

Since Skype went down for millions of users Wednesday morning, Skype Inc. began to investigate this neither “typical” nor “expected” occurrence, according to an online Skype statement.

At 4 p.m., Skype tweeted on its Twitter page that it is now “gradually returning to normal,” expecting several hours for everyone to be able to sign in again.

As Internet users can no longer communicate via Skype, Skype users are particularly active on Twitter Wednesday, complaining about their Skype communicators.

“Skype is still down for me. It’s been all day,” tweeted @PaulCalvert at 9 p.m. EST. “Skype still doesn’t work,” tweeted user @kikipancakes at 11:45 p.m. EST.

Skype explained in the statement that it was down due to a downfall of the number of supernodes available, which Skype relies on to function normally.

Supernodes are some Skype users’ computers, which act like phone directories for Skype. As many of these supernode computers happened to be offline, Skype crashed.

Although Skype said it is confident that its engineers will return the program to normal in a few hours, some features, such as group video calling, may take longer return to normal.