Apple $AAPL’s new music streaming music service launched today, and it has already hit its first snag. Beats 1, the 24/7 global radio station embedded within Apple Music, appears to have gone offline, according to users’ posts on social media.
Around 5:30pm Pacific Time, people started posting screenshots on Twitter $TWTR and Instagram that Beats 1 was unavailable. The big irony, of course, is that Apple has billed Beats 1—headed by radio personalities Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden $DRI, and Julie Adenuga—as “always on.” (And the screenshots below clearly show that tagline behind an overlay with the error message.)
Update: At 6:08pm, an Apple representative told Quartz: “It’s back on. All good.”
