Gmail services disrupted; netizens troll with hilarious memes

Team Udayavani, Aug 20, 2020, 3:36 PM IST

New Delhi: Google’s email service, Gmail, is facing disruption in service since Thursday, August 20 morning, affecting some users in various parts of the world.

Netizens across the globe who are tired of waiting for Gmail to work have been sharing the distress caused by this while some users are sharing memes on social media. Hashtags like #Gmail, #Gmaildown are trending on twitter as well.

Here are some of the tweets.

Me Waiting for Google to Fix Gmail ? Got hundreds of calls from clients that “our services are not working” ?#gmaildown pic.twitter.com/BWscIFms8N

— Wilson Savaliya ❁ (@wilson3130) August 20, 2020

#Gmail #gmaildown issue

Work from home guys be like : pic.twitter.com/7GYBFxdL9n

— Gᴀɴᴅᴀ Bᴀᴄʜᴄʜᴀ (@_Ganda_Bachcha_) August 20, 2020

#Gmail is down

Le Yahoo mail : pic.twitter.com/d5Jgb2VsBD

— Subhash Kochhar™ (@Subhashkochhar9) August 20, 2020

#Gmail was down for an hour

*le CBSE Results website pic.twitter.com/cVBdYQQjn1

— Puffy blinder (@reyaaa41282911) August 20, 2020

#Gmail server is down globally

Le HR department : pic.twitter.com/3iMU7uVbJu

— Tweemers (@tweemers) 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

The company is yet to specify a reason for the outage. According to the G Suite status dashboard, Google is “investigating reports of an issue with Gmail”.

Reportedly, in an update, it said: “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by August 20, 1330 hours (IST), detailing when we expect to resolve the problem”.

As per the dashboard, other Google services like Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Meet have also been affected.