Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users - Downdetector

FILE PHOTO: Microsoft Teams app is seen on the smartphone placed on the keyboard in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

(Reuters) -Microsoft's Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

"We've completed the failover in the EMEA region and service telemetry is showing some improvement. The failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor," Microsoft said in a post on social media platform X.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar and Krishna Chandra Eluri)