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YouTube, Gmail and other Google platforms had stopped working worldwide for many users yesterday evening. Many users took up the issue on Twitter. Most Google services are up and running. However, there's still no clarity regarding what triggered the outage in the first place. Google is expected to acknowledge the issue in a future post.
Popular website tracker, DownDetector has also claimed multiple outages that were reported yesterday at around 5 PM. The outage lasted for over an hour. The website showed outage reports from all around the world which includes India, many European countries as well as parts of the United States and Australia.
Those who reported issues with YouTube, 54% said they couldn’t access the website, 42% couldn’t watch videos and 3% were struggling to log-in. And of those who reported problems with Gmail, 75% couldn’t log-in, 15% couldn’t access the website, and 8% were not receiving messages. DownDetector showed over 9,000 reported cases from users having issues accessing YouTube.
Gmail users got a message, "We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the G Suite Status Dashboard for the current status of the service”. On YouTube, users also got an error message saying, "Something went wrong".
The YouTube team later released a statement claiming the issue is being looked into. The Team stated, "We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news: Team YouTube."
Other Google services such as Google Docs and Google pay were also down. Google Docs shared a message saying, "Google Docs encountered an error. Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes. To learn more about the Google Docs editors, please visit our help center."
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