When Spotify Goes Silent: What Outages Reveal About Our Digital Dependence
In the early hours of April 16, 2025, nearly 50,000 users across the globe reported problems with Spotify, one of the world’s most beloved music and podcast streaming services. The homepage glitched, search failed, and songs refused to play. X (formerly Twitter) exploded with memes, panic, and poetic despair — “Spotify is down and the…