Early  Thursday, users started experiencing issues with Pokemon GO servers. Not long afterward, the official Pokemon GO Twitter account posted a confirmation of these reports. There was some kind of issue with the server. Unfortunately, they didn’t go into any more detail.

At least they gave a heads up.

Without much to go on, players were left in the dark. Was it a DDoS attack? Did Niantic try to apply an update that went south? There was no telling what really happened. It could have even been that someone tripped over a cord.

Found the problem!

Regardless, it only took Niantic almost 2 hours to get back with us. Once again on their Twitter, they gave trainers the all clear. Finally, we were free to catch Pokemon again.

Still not a ton of info here.

In the grand scheme of things, 2 hours isn’t very long. I’m glad to see the issue was fully under control quickly. It very easily could have been much worse.