Is Twitch down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Twitch right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Twitch continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, video won't play, constant buffering, poor video quality and chat not working. Those are the options the report button offers for Twitch, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Twitch specifically, video, chat, sign-in and the subscription service are separate, and video comes from regional delivery servers. Chat can work while video buffers, one stream can be broken by the streamer's own upload, and your region's delivery can be unhealthy while others watch fine. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Twitch, try a different channel, ideally a large one. One stream buffering while others do not points at that streamer's upload rather than Twitch. Chat loading while video does not points at video delivery or your connection. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Twitch's side. Specifically: do not resubscribe or re-buy bits that appeared to fail. Purchases during an incident usually complete with a delayed confirmation, so buying again charges you twice. Check your subscriptions page first. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Twitch publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Twitch itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.twitch.tv, and it is linked further up this page. That is Twitch's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Twitch or twitch.tv. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Twitch's own support, not us.