Sept 29 (Reuters) - Audio streaming platform Spotify ( SPOT )

was back up after an approximate three-hour-long outage

on Sunday, which at its peak impacted more than 40,000 users in

the United States, according to Downdetector.com.

Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of

sources including user reports, reported less than 600 users

were still having issues in the U.S as of 3 p.m. ET (1900 GMT).

"Everything's looking much better now!" Spotify ( SPOT )

said

in a post on social media platform X.

Spotify ( SPOT ) did not immediately respond to a Reuters'

request for comment seeking the reason behind the outage.

Users were not able to stream anything besides recently

played songs, their playlists did not load and music randomly

stopped playing for some,

according

to user comments on their community page.

In the

second quarter

, the number of paying Spotify ( SPOT ) subscribers rose to 246

million.