NEW YORK (AP) – Google was hit with a massive outage Monday morning that left Gmail, YouTube and Google Classroom members, and its other services unable to access their accounts.
Thousands of complaints started emerging around 7 a.m. EST.
Users attempting to log in to their accounts received error messages that stated “Something Went Wrong.”
According to the outage monitoring website DownDetector.com, more than 12,000 YouTube users experienced problems worldwide including in the United States.
The outage through a hitch in classrooms this morning due to issues with Google Classroom. It’s a service that’s been widely used as the COVID-19 pandemic forced many districts and universities to conduct classes virtually.
As of 9:50 a.m. CST, much of the services have been restored for some users. The company said it is working to fix the problem.
Some social media users had fun with the outage.
What’s going on 2020?
The day came when you can’t even @Google what occurred with @Google !
It’s #2020 and nothing is ordinary this year.
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and different administrations go down all the while in various nations #googledown pic.twitter.com/yzOdm8eKlv— Tathastu parashar (@Tathastuaryan) December 14, 2020
Yahoo search when they see more than 0 users on their site #googledown pic.twitter.com/olG2X5ZnPM
— drakao (@drakao1) December 14, 2020
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