YouTube And Gmail Experience Widespread Outages

Newsweek reports:

Several Google services appear to be suffering outages, with widespread issues hitting Gmail, YouTube, Drive and Hangouts.

An error on Gmail reads: “We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.” YouTube is also offline, with a warning that now reads: “Something went wrong…”

According to DownDetector, a platform that tracks reports about outages in real-time, the Google software problems appear to be taking place worldwide, but seem to be most prevalent in Europe and along the east coast of America.

Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down simultaneously in multiple countries https://t.co/RlBa240aMU by @ingridlunden

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