Xbox Live DOWN -Reported that many users had difficulties experience with the following services: Users may experience difficulties connecting to Xbox LIVE.the issued spread on twitter update by the user of twitter saying Xbox Live servers down, the engineer try hard to resolve the issue. apoligizing any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for user patience.
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You can find updates about the Xbox Live servers status on Twitter at the official Xbox Support account here. The Xbox team has acknowledged the server problems and they're working on a fix right now, but they don't know when the outage will be over. Let us know where are you from and if you can play Xbox Live games Description: Xbox Live server is DOWN Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: dev ItemReviewed: Xbox Live server is DOWN