Skype sever takes rest on 22nd December 2010. Actually its shut-down due to massive load that it takes on that day.

The Result is millions of people couldn't  get their phone calls due to that down. But the funniest thing is when it is down Twitter Users at that moment goes Up. Because most of the Skype users trying to use Twitter Direct Messages on behalf of Skype.

This image shows how it looked like on 22nd December 2010.(This shows number of Skype users on that day)



In theory, Skype, which is based on peer-to-peer networking technology shouldn’t see an outage.

TmcNet tells this kind of thing about that Shutting down.
"They also had a DNS issue back in 2004. Not exactly good timing with the impending IPO and people wanting to wish each other Merry Christmas in 3 days. I was able to login, but my buddy list looks mostly offline, which is very unusual." 

This is what Skype saying at that moment on their Twitter Channel.(Source:TechCrunch)


Someone posted this Video to Youtube about the Skype's shutting down.