Gmail appears to be down in an apparent worldwide outage

David Choi

Mar 13, 2019, 09:07 IST

Gmail appears to be down in an apparent worldwide outage

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Gmail and Google Drive appeared to be down for numerous users worldwide on Tuesday evening.

Thousands of reports were filed on Tuesday night, according to DownDetector. The apparent problem seemed to affect users in the US, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and Japan.

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Gmail users reported cases where they were not able to access their emails or attachments:

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Well if gmail isn't workin, either am I. pic.twitter.com/AeIMfHY4bz
- Ryan Negri (@RyanNegri) March 13, 2019

It truly is a thing of beauty to follow the #gmail outage and see so many frustrated and confused people speaking so many languages.
Clearly, Gmail is "Gmail" no matter which language you speak. #gmaildown
- Jayde Lovell (@JaydeLovell) March 13, 2019

Me trying to send @gmail attachments today.
Desktop work account .... hmm.
Desktop personal account ... well that's weird.
Mobile work account ... nope.
Mobile personal account ... GAAAAARGH.
Anyone else?
- Ashley Argoon (@AshArgoon) March 13, 2019

That one time when you say "I've been having trouble sending and receiving email" and it's actually true. #gmaildown #gmail
- Jayde Lovell (@JaydeLovell) March 13, 2019