Gmail outage news: Service restored for some users after global outage, confirms Google

There is a latest update by Google regarding Google's email service Gmail that suffered a massive outage worldwide, today. Google in its status page said the Gmail service has been restored for some users. "Gmail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change," it said.

Users of Google’s email service Gmail on Wednesday suffered an outage worldwide. Along with Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and other Google services were also facing an outage.

Hundreds of Gmail users took to social media to complain about the outage in the service, with #Gmail becoming the top trend on Twitter. Many users complained about not being able to send any attachments or documents while others said they're not able to log in at all. Some users also reported that they are facing connectivity issues while working on Google Meet.

Gmail confirmed the disruption in its status page at 10:59 AM today. It wrote, "We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly."

Meanwhile, the internet was flooded with memes and jokes about the outage, take a look:

Gmail server is down, not able to share today's task with the team.#Gmail pic.twitter.com/51Iwq04LUR

— EmpowerD Tech (@empowerdtech) August 20, 2020

#Gmail People coming on twitter to check #Gmail was down be like
pic.twitter.com/H7QN27O4nu

— Vivek (@Vivek73876400) August 20, 2020

Never thought that even Google server would go down someday.
2020 is really making history.#Gmail pic.twitter.com/kj0mXJVvrW

— Vishal Kumar (@vishalcasm__) August 20, 2020

#Gmail not working.
Meanwhile everyone at office pic.twitter.com/mgizbcxml1

— Souabh (@sourapova) August 20, 2020

*Waiting for #Gmail to upload my assignment as today is the last date of submission* pic.twitter.com/Kn6TmG2wod

— Heisenberg (@methmemer) August 20, 2020

#Gmail Down from Last 1 hour

Me who don't use #Gmail : pic.twitter.com/kwLdemYGj2

— (@IM_Bhanuu) August 20, 2020

#Gmail was down for more than 1 hour.

*people who never ever mailed anyone in their entire life:- pic.twitter.com/bV4KY8CGSS

— Kartik Mishra (@Kartikmishra_14) August 20, 2020

Thrursday : #Gmail down. Free holiday.
Friday: Holiday on account of #GaneshChaturthi
Saturday & Sunday : Weekend holidays

Me: After knowing my weekend just got extended to 4 days pic.twitter.com/x5AVMMUppS

— Meghna Khandelwal (@MeghnaMeghna123) August 20, 2020

This was the second time in two months that Gmail suffered such a massive outage. In July this year, Gmail services went down for hours for users in India.

Gmail is by far the most used email service and an outage affects millions of users.