Popular online video call and meeting platform Google Meet was down for many users in India on Wednesday. Users reported issues while joining online meetings on the platform.
According to Downdetector, over 1,370 people had reported issues in India until 11:57 am.
Netizens react
Several users flocked to X to share frustrations and report issues with the online platform.
A user wrote on X, “google meet crashed before my will to work did”. Another posted, “Google meet is down for everyone in my org but not for me”
A third user wrote, “Google meet is down!! Why every big tech is going down this month?”
“Can’t open google meet. i’ve never been more free,” wrote one user, while another posted, “What happened to the Google meet and chat???”
“Google meet is down ?…..I can join the meet but my rest of the team is facing issues,” an X user posted.
Google Meet outage in US
In September earlier this year, Google Meet faced a major outage in the United States as the service stopped working for more than 15,000 users.
On Downdetector.com, 79% of the reports were about trouble starting a conference, 16% were related to server connection issues, and the remaining 5% were about problems using the app.
In its first review, Google said the outage was caused by a “recent change in content edge cache.”
The company said its engineers reversed the change to fix the problem. “We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue,” it said.
Recent tech outages
This comes a week after an outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare, which took down several websites, including X, Canva, and ChatGPT.
While the issue was later resolved, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht acknowledged the shortcoming and said that they “failed” their customers “and the broader Internet when a problem in Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us”. (Hindustan Times)