Gmail down for millions of users across world: Details here
What's the story
Gmail suffered a massive outage late on Saturday as the services of tech giant Google's popular email platform went down for millions of users across the globe due to a technical glitch, said reports. Users of both mobile and desktop versions in many countries, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, among others, seem to be impacted by the outage.
Issues
Most issues seem to be related to receiving emails
Per outage-tracking platform Downdetector, Gmail users in India started reporting disruptions shortly after 7:00 pm on Saturday, while outage reports peaked at around 8:20 pm. Most of the problems being faced by Indian users seem to be related to receiving emails (84%), server connection (9%), and accessing the website (7%). However, users from other countries reported issues with logging in and sending emails, too.
Twitter Post
Here's what Downdetected posted on Twitter
User reports indicate Gmail is having problems since 9:12 AM EST. https://t.co/EsWw2oLYjH RT if you're also having problems #Gmaildown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) December 10, 2022
Information
Most reports received from these Indian cities
According to Downdetector's outage heat map, most of the Indian users who have reported issues with Google's email service are concentrated in cities like Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Nagpur, among others.
Details
Google yet to respond to service outage reports
Many users from across the world took to social media platforms to voice their frustration and complain of their Gmail app becoming unresponsive and undelivered emails as well. However, the reason behind this service outage is yet to be revealed. Google and Gmail have not yet acknowledged or responded to these reports of service disruptions (at the time of writing).