Skype back up after brief hiccup

Have any trouble making Skype calls this morning? If so, you weren’t alone, with Engadget reporting that Skype users from the U.K. to Australia had trouble logging into their Skype accounts early Tuesday.

The good news is that Skype appeared to be back up for most users by about 11 a.m. ET, with the official Skype status site blaming the blip (which sounds like it was far less severe than last December’s global outage) on an unspecified “configuration problem.” Only a “small number” of users were affected, according to Skype.