If you have trying to login to Skype Internet telephony software for the whole day unsuccessfully, you’re not the only one, possibly millions of Skype users worldwide share your pain on unable to connect and login to Skype. From early Thursday, Skype network appeared to be down where users clients unable to connect with message in status bar saying “Connecting…”. While other users experiencing Skype apparently signed in, but disconnect after a while or almost immediately.

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Skype engineering team has confirmed that it’s a software issue on the part of Skype, according to a message posted on Skype homepage. According to Skype Heartbeat, the software problem affects sign in and registration module and peer-to-peer network core, where there are problems with Skype login. Skype expects problems to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours.

Skype sign-in problem has reportedly felt by users in Malaysia, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Finland, Singapore and the United States, and probably more. It may also be the longest outage of a single popular online service in history.

Skype asked users to simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in.