Something you don't read about everyday: Google is having a massive global outage
After hours of plotting a whole hashtag that would trash our network service provider, we have discovered that it wasn't a network thing – but rather, Google is also having one of those Eskom panic attacks / global outage. Now that's something you don't get to see everyday! Google was hit by a major outage
Something you don't read about everyday: Google is having a massive global outage
After hours of plotting a whole hashtag that would trash our network service provider, we have discovered that it wasn’t a network thing – but rather, Google is also having one of those Eskom panic attacks / global outage.
Now that’s something you don’t get to see everyday! Google was hit by a major outage on Monday morning, including South Africa.
Per Downdetector, a wide range of Google services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Suite, and Google Maps started experiencing problems at around 14:00 South African time.
People took to Twitter about the outage.
If you're not receiving mail (or able to send), you're not alone. Worldwide outage for #Youtube, #Gmail, #GoogleDocs, #GoogleDrive etc. Google is naturally silent on the matter. Probably because it's down for their comms too… #GoogleDown #YouTubeDown #GmailDown #GoogleDriveDown
— Arthur Goldstuck (@art2gee) December 14, 2020
The day came. When you can't even #Google what happened with Google.
— Faraz Shafiq (@farazshafiq) December 14, 2020
It's still 2020.#googledown #YouTubeDOWN #gmaildown #googledrivedown pic.twitter.com/9PrJtrMY5J
Me opening twitter to see if Youtube, Gmail, google is down! #YouTubeDOWN #googledown #gmail pic.twitter.com/nydzvGd1hg
— Kishan Patel (@instakishan_) December 14, 2020
YouTube tweeted that it was looking at the problem.
TechCrunch reported the outage affected multiple countries including the US, European countries, South Africa and India.
This story is developing.
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