Twitch outage on October 21, 2026: Identified Emotes Issues
Twitch reported an incident affecting Twitch for 34 minutes on 21 October 2026, from 18:33 to 19:07 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Twitch
- Started
- 18:33
- 21 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 19:07
- 21 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 34m
- 34 minutes
- Impact
- -
- as rated by Twitch
- Updates
- 3
- posted by Twitch
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Twitch
Identified Emotes Issues
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Official
Investigating
🛠 We have identified an issue causing emotes to not work for some users. We're currently working to resolve this issue.
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Official
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Twitch's public status page, status.twitch.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test www.twitch.tv from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Twitch status shows what our checks see right now.
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