This one's right up there with the stock market crash, amirite?
If you're dependent upon Google Drive for any reason, things may have gotten a little dicey for you today.
Around 1 p.m. EST on Monday, January 27, online storage and file-sharing service Google Drive seemingly ran into technical issues, keeping thousands of users across the country from being able to access their documents.
In the meantime, users flocked to social media to express their frustration and commiserate:
When google drive goes down on deadline day #googledrive pic.twitter.com/zWBoTED7Bw
— Cassidy Dankochik (@GimliJetsMan) January 27, 2020
GOOGLE DRIVE IS DOWN THIS IS NOT A DRILL! BEGIN HOARDING INSTANT MASHED POTATOES BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE CONSUMES US ALLLLLLLLLL #GoogleDrive @googledrive
— Cassidy Dankochik (@GimliJetsMan) January 27, 2020
*Google drive shuts down with error*
— Tina🌸 (@Tina_Donati) January 27, 2020
Every marketing team ever: pic.twitter.com/RbEd5cu6j7
Me right now because Google Drive is down and I have work to do pic.twitter.com/SFQae2hvln
— emma benson (@Bensonville18) January 27, 2020
help Google Drive is down and I don’t know how to FUNCTION pic.twitter.com/E8DLnFdewO
— Shannon Pender (@penderuth) January 27, 2020
my friends bragging about being on Microsoft suite and not being affected by the Google Drive outage pic.twitter.com/Ggn0OAEx5D
— Jose Cornejo (@josescornejo) January 27, 2020
As of publication time, Down Detector was showing more than 24,000 reports of outages. Google has yet to say what the problem might be, though it seems that users' access is being restored little by little. Here in our OCN office, everything seems to be back to hunky-dory.
Are you having a Google Drive outage? Has accessibility been restored? Let's commiserate in the comments!
