Spotify Down: Thousands Report Problems With Music App
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Spotify is a popular app for music. People use it to listen to songs online. On Tuesday, many users had problems with Spotify. The app did not work well for them.
A website called Downdetector saw the problem. Downdetector shows when apps have an outage. An outage means an app stops working. Thousands of people used Downdetector to report Spotify problems.
People asked online: "Is Spotify down?" and "Why isn't Spotify working?" This means many users could not use the app the same way.
Spotify is a streaming service. Streaming means you listen to music online, not from a file on your phone. Many people around the world use Spotify every day.
It is not clear yet why Spotify had problems. Companies often fix outages quickly. Users hope Spotify will work normally again soon.
Vocabulary15 words
- app
- a computer program on your phone
- outage
- when something stops working for a time
- streaming
- listening to or watching something online, not saved on your device
- report
- to tell people about a problem
- user
- a person who uses something like an app
- website
- a page or pages on the internet
- popular
- liked by many people
- problem
- something that is wrong
- service
- something a company gives you, like music or internet
- normal
- usual; the same as always
- online
- connected to the internet
- fix
- to make something work again
- company
- a business that sells things or services
- device
- a machine like a phone or computer
- quickly
- in a short time
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1. Many users had problems with the app 2. A website that shows when apps have problems 3. Listening to music online
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Spotify is a popular _____ for music. People use it to listen to songs online. On Tuesday, many users had _____ with Spotify. The app did not work well for them.
A website called Downdetector saw the problem. Downdetector shows when apps have an _____. An outage means an app stops working. Thousands of people used Downdetector to _____ Spotify problems.
People asked online: "Is Spotify down?" and "Why isn't Spotify working?" This means many _____ could not use the app the same way.
Spotify is a _____ service. Streaming means you listen to music online, not from a file on your phone. Many people around the world use Spotify every day.
It is not clear yet why Spotify had problems. Companies often _____ outages quickly. Users hope Spotify will work _____ again soon.
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