Quibi experienced an outage on launch day
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Mobile video app Quibi, which just launched today, experienced a one-hour outage this afternoon, the company confirmed. Quibi first announced on Twitter that there were problems at 2:07PM ET and said it was fixed at 3:07PM ET.
While the outage was going on, one Verge staffer saw the below error screen. I saw this same error screen and couldn’t browse anything in the app, but while writing this story, videos started working again. Another staffer was unable to make a Quibi account.
In a prelaunch interview, Quibi told The Verge that it had load-tested the app to help the team prepare for potential outages. And although the service was designed for on-the-go viewing, Quibi anticipated more people might be binge-watching the…
