Sunday’s supposed to be a day of rest — a “Funday,” if you will, a chance to take a break from one’s SmartPhone and the Internet. But we all know that’s a lie. Sure enough when three of the Internet’s most used services — Gmail, YouTube, and Snapchat — all suffered outages in parts of the country, people freaked out. And because Twitter wasn’t one of the ones hit, they had a place to vent.
According to The Verge, the outages, which began mid-afternoon, were caused by an even bigger outage, belonging to Google Cloud, which caused a chain reaction that cut service across the United States and even in parts of Europe. It also affected such web services as Nest, Discord, and others. Not everyone was hit, but those that were were not happy, nor willing to return to a relaxing Sunday Funday.
But again, they still had Twitter.
Everyone rushing to Twitter to see if other people are having the same problems with Snapchat. #snapchatdown pic.twitter.com/MUhqYbfH9p
— Pickles (@Picklesss16) June 2, 2019
And a reminder that for some reason Twitter almost never goes down.
#YouTubeDOWN #snapchatdown Have you noticed that YouTube, Linkedin, Gmail, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat go down, but Twitter NEVER goes down? pic.twitter.com/bKoIlh4NlL
— Max Powers (@MaxPowers44) June 2, 2019
They also went to Instagram.
https://twitter.com/Aiman_521/status/1135307537975300103
Once there, they made jokes.
https://twitter.com/Kauffee_Bean/status/1135283948681072648
YouTube, Snapchat, Uber, Gmail, Soundcloud and more all down thanks to Google Cloud.
Twitter: pic.twitter.com/wuFTPtRU46
— Karen DaltonBeninato (@kbeninato) June 2, 2019
So Gmail, YouTube, Snapchat and Google are down. We all know what that means… pic.twitter.com/XQ1Nu60O3d
— George Morris De'Ath (@kingofswank) June 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/pyxku/status/1135263616754704384
https://twitter.com/Gazi_T11911949/status/1135292411268218880
Can’t tell if snapchat is still down or if my phone just slow pic.twitter.com/McWvgUtPmN
— Gus Burch (@gustheburch) June 2, 2019
Some wondered whether this wasn’t some advertising ploy.
google cloud is down
google compute engine is down
gmail is down
google drive is down
nest is down
youtube is down
snapchat is down
uber is down
nextDNS is down
Pokemon Go is down
App Engine is down
…
google advertising up— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 2, 2019
As of this writing, it was not yet known if all service across the three platforms had been restored. The outages were reminiscent of that apocalyptic day last October when YouTube — and only YouTube — went down for a bit. That also was not taken kindly.
(Via The Verge)