Micro blogging site Twitter suffered outage on Thursday, users started complaining of video not playing on the bird app. Media contents are not appearing instead links are shown.
media not loading links appears like simple texts welcome back 2011 twitter
— S (@sanket7262) August 20, 2020
Several Google services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Meet were restored after suffering one of the longest worldwide outages on Thursday. At around mid-morning (India timing) Gmail suffered massive outage worldwide with some users complaining that they can’t send any attachments or documents while a few others reported that they have not been able to log in at all.
Popular outage tracking portal Down Detector reported that user reports indicate Google is having problems since 1:16 AM EDT. Down Detector reported there was an outage with Google servers. Google responded to users, saying they were working on a fix to resolve the issue. Down Detector said nearly 62 per cent of the users reported problems with Gmail, being unable to send or receive emails.
Gmail in its status page confirmed the disruption. It wrote, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly”.
