Google's email application and website Gmail went down which lead to many users not being able to read their emails or access their Gmail Inbox.
When trying to access the website users were greeted with a “404. That's an error message” followed by a “The requested URL was not found on this server. That's all we know."
The website was down in most parts of the world, according to the site Down Detector. The areas which were majorly affected were western Europe and eastern part of South America. India too was affected by this outage.
Google said it was aware of the problem and that it would be posting updates as it attempted to fix the issue.
We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. We will provide an update by 1/29/19, 12:50 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.Google to The Independent
During the outage, many perplexed Gmail users who weren't able to access their accounts took to Twitter posting their concerns.
Is @gmail down ? i am getting this error while logging in! pic.twitter.com/XqKL4ybRXJ
January 29, 2019404. That's an error.
January 29, 2019
Gmail Down. ☹️@gmail @GoogleIt's not happening so often.. but it seems gmail is down.. or is it only me @gmail, @Google . pic.twitter.com/lSQ7O1Ju2N
January 29, 2019Last checked at 7:00PM IST, Gmail was working in India. Everything seems to be in order now people! Get back online.
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