Netflix Down trends as binge watchers get cut off their dope

Netflix tweeted from its official Twitter support page saying the company is working to solve the issues.

Netflix went down on Saturday night for a number of users in the US, New Zealand, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, and Switzerland. Reports claim the popular streaming site went down sometime before 9:30 p.m. ET but it was back online within an hour. According to The Wrap, users in the US with Apple TV did not report outages; but those logging in from on the web faced issues. They were greeted with a message, “Netflix Site Error. We are unable to process your request. Please go to the Netflix home page by clicking the button below.”  Downdetector.com confirmed Netflix is having issues. “Netflix is having issues since 6:29 PM EDT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments,” the site says. According to the site, 40 per cent users faced issues while video streaming, 23 per cent while logging in and 36 per cent reported problems of no connection.

Netflix tweeted from its official Twitter support page saying the company is working to solve the issues. “We are aware that some customers are seeing errors when visiting Netflix’s website and we are working to solve this as quickly as possible,” it tweeted. Meanwhile, users across the world took to Twitter to share their problems with Netflix. US footballer Alex Morgan tweeted, “Netflix is down??? My #strangerthings obsession is real and this outage just confirmed it. Pleaaaaaase fix this in begging.”

According to recent reports, the subscriber growth of Netflix in the US has slowed down. The service added just 160,000 US subscribers from April through June, which is one of its lowest gain in five years. Let us take a look at some of the user’s tweets who complained of the Netflix outage:

me: I’m gonna watch Netflix
Netflix: #NetflixDown
me: pic.twitter.com/00tYjO5RuO

— Elise McKinney (@emckinney18) July 31, 2016

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Netflix is down on a Saturday night pic.twitter.com/p8prEUf0us

— Sunni (@SunniAndTheCity) July 31, 2016

.@Netflix is down! Panic. #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/3JV99hbsyk

— Jenny W Chan (@OrigamiTree) July 31, 2016

When #netflix is down and you have no choice but to leave the house and commune with nature #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/Cr7AwHFopY

— bethany (@bmj_br) July 31, 2016

Saturday nightmare #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/Zt97Mom47c

— Pedro Gerardo Mota (@pedrogmota) July 31, 2016

@Netflixhelps Hurry to fix this or my existence on this earth will have no value. #netflixdown pic.twitter.com/0XLbvsldPN

— Sylfaen (@sylfaeen) July 31, 2016

Netflix went down on a Saturday night, leaving many of its subscribers looking for other options rather than watching their favourite TV shows. Thankfully the issue was fixed within an hour.