(Reuters) -Audio streaming platform Spotify was offline for thousands of users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, showed approximately 40,602 affected users in the United States.

Many users took to social media platform X to share updates on the service outage.

In the second quarter of 2024, the number of paying Spotify subscribers rose to 246 million.

(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh; Editing by Nick Zieminski)