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Edinburgh Live
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Dayna McAlpine

Gmail down: Google Drive, Youtube and more crashes for frustrated users globally

There's been thousands of frustrated employees working from home this morning as it appears that Gmail has crashed this morning.

According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 07:24 BST, and is still affecting Google users around the world.

While the reason for the outage remains unclear, of those who reported issues, 43% said they were having problems with attachments, 32% couldn't log-in, and 24% couldn't receive messages.

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The main issues with Google Drive seem to be file syncing, causing an estimated 68 per cent of all reported problems.

One Twitter user commented on the situation: "Remember it’s #2020worstyear... so one more addition when Gmail goes down, the whole world goes down!"

A drop in Gmail connectivity has been reported by users all over the world, including in India, Australia and the USA.

Google says it is currently carrying out investigations on the reported disruption.

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