A widespread outage in Gmail, Google+, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and other online services from Google was reported in the late morning/early afternoon US time January 24, 2014.
Google have already fixed the issue and Google's Vice President of Engineering Ben Treynor took to the company blog for both an explanation and an apology.
Earlier today, most Google users who use logged-in services like Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents found they were unable to access those services for approximately 25 minutes. For about 10 percent of users, the problem persisted for as much as 30 minutes longer. Whether the effect was brief or lasted the better part of an hour, please accept our apologies—we strive to make all of Google’s services available and fast for you, all the time, and we missed the mark today.
The issue has been resolved, and we’re now focused on correcting the bug that caused the outage, as well as putting more checks and monitors in place to ensure that this kind of problem doesn’t happen again.
While several people on Twitter claimed that they had access to Gmail during the outage, the social network was flooded with tweets about how the service was down.
By the way… my #Gmail is working. I must have the super duper access.
— Jeff Weisbein (@jeffweisbein) January 24, 2014Can't access my work #gmail account. How am I supposed to know whether we have pastries in the workroom?!
— m3mo (@m3mo) May 29, 2012 #gmail goes down and @microsoft is all over it with ads! Haha awesome way to kick someone while they are down. pic.twitter.com/vJhgvXEwq9
— Raphael (@raphspeaks) January 24, 2014#Gmail has been down longer than @KimKardashian in the locker room at NBA All-star weekend.
— Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton) January 24, 2014#Gmail is down? DON'T PANIC. Here's a puppy to get you through: pic.twitter.com/xgfy332qfc
— Late Night (@LateNightJimmy) January 24, 2014Dammit #gmail I'm waiting on confirmation of transfer of my funds from my Nigerian lottery win!
— Martyn Parker (@martynparker) January 24, 2014EVERYONE PANIC! #Gmail is down! I repeat, Gmail is down! pic.twitter.com/aOStu3Rq2r
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