Snapchat, Spotify and Discord were among the internet services and social app that appeared to be returning to normal on Tuesday after a brief global shutdown.
Google said issues with its Cloud Networking, which counts Etsy, Spotify and Snapchat as clients, were partially resolved shortly after thousands of users flagged it on tracking website Down Detector.
"Many Snapchatters are having trouble using the app. Hang tight, we're working on a fix. In the meantime, we recommend staying logged in," Snapchat support said in a tweet during the disruption.
Spotify users had been facing a music-less few hours and flooded the internet to report an "error 404" message that prevented them from gaining access to the music and podcast streaming application.
Down Detector recorded a huge surge in Spotify reports, with its UK arm recording nearly 17,000 by 6pm GMT. It estimated nearly half of all users were affected in some way.
Spotify tweeted it was "aware of some issues" and was "checking them out".
Twitter account Alpha Intel posted that companies including Etsy, Pokemon Go and Rocket League were also affected.
The breakdown follows a six-hour widespread shutdown for Facebook last month after faulty configuration changes on the social media company's routers.
Paatal Lok season two
Directors: Avinash Arun, Prosit Roy
Stars: Jaideep Ahlawat, Ishwak Singh, Lc Sekhose, Merenla Imsong
Rating: 4.5/5
THE CLOWN OF GAZA
Director: Abdulrahman Sabbah
Starring: Alaa Meqdad
Rating: 4/5
Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
A State of Passion
Directors: Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi
Stars: Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Rating: 4/5
