- Gmail and Google Drive experienced a worldwide outage on Tuesday night.
- Google confirmed the outage in a statement to Business Insider. The affected users are able to access Google Drive, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.”
- The issues were not isolated to Gmail for some people. Users reported cases where they were not able to access their emails and other Google-owned applications.
Gmail and Google Drive experienced a worldwide outage on Tuesday evening.
Thousands of reports were filed, according to DownDetector. The apparent problem seemed to affect users from the US, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and Japan.
Some users were able to access their emails, but encountered errors when sending a new email: “Message could not be sent. Check your network and try again.”
Google said it was aware of “an issue with Google Drive” starting at 7:53 p.m.
"We will provide more information shortly," the company said on its Google Drive service website. "The affected users are able to access Google Drive, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior."
The issues were not isolated to Gmail for some people. Users reported cases where they were not able to access their emails and other Google-owned applications:
Well if gmail isn’t workin, either am I. pic.twitter.com/AeIMfHY4bz
— Ryan Negri (@RyanNegri) March 13, 2019
It truly is a thing of beauty to follow the #gmail outage and see so many frustrated and confused people speaking so many languages.
Clearly, Gmail is "Gmail" no matter which language you speak. #gmaildown— Jayde Lovell (@JaydeLovell) March 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/AshArgoon/status/1105672910000119809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
That one time when you say "I've been having trouble sending and receiving email" and it's actually true. #gmaildown #gmail
— Jayde Lovell (@JaydeLovell) March 13, 2019
DEFINITELY NOT FREAKING OUT OVER THE FACT THAT IT'S THREE HOURS UNTIL PRINT DEADLINE AND MY STORIES ARE STUCK IN GMAIL ATTACHMENTS INSTEAD OF BEING ON THE PAGES OF THE PAPER #gmail pic.twitter.com/S9ClF4fBSu
— Dani Brown (@itsdanibrown) March 13, 2019
