Gmail, GPay, YouTube suffer global outage
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: 15.12.2020
For millions, the world stopped a little after 5 pm on Monday. Several ‘essential’ services of the internet age — Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Maps and GPay — went down simultaneously for about an hour. The outage occurred across India, United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America. A user, Kshitij, shared an image of a group of cavemen making fire, to sum up the online mood. “An illustration of what life without Google feels like in 2020,” he wrote.
Users said they were unable to access their emails, watch videos or access their documents stored on Google Cloud, owned by technology giant Alphabet Inc. Google Cloud later tweeted that the outage was caused “due to an internal storage quota issue” and that the problem had been “resolved”. According to real-time outage tracker downdetector.com, the disruption in all the services began around 5.30pm. At the peak of the disruption, YouTube was the worst impacted.
On Twitter, Google was the top trend globally with over 1,518k tweets, followed by Gmail with over 298K tweets. In India, too, the outage caused a tsunami of tweets and memes on the microblogging site. #googledown, #YouTubeDown and gmail were the top three trends around 9pm, with 102k, 175k and 307k tweets.
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