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[br]Google server trouble snarls YouTube, Snapchat[br][br]Congested Google servers in the eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on Sunday, with complaints on social media that the popular apps weren't accessible.[br][br]Google acknowledged the issue, writing in a statement on its Cloud Platform status page that it was dealing with "high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube." "Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors," it said, adding that engineers had completed the first of two steps to restore normal operations.[br][br]Earlier in the day, social media users complained of trouble loading a slew of popular websites and apps.[br][br]"Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Shopify, all currently down. Is the internet melting?" asked one Twitter post.[br][br]Snapchat and Google-owned YouTube both acknowledged the server issue on their Twitter accounts.[br][br]Cloud computing is one of Google's most lucrative services, but faces stiff competition from other technology companies like Amazon and Microsoft.[br][br]In March, the world's largest social network, Facebook, blamed a "server configuration change" for a massive outage affecting its applications around the world.[br][br]The outage affected users for at least 12 hours in most areas of the world, with the biggest impact in North America and Europe, a tracking website said at the time.[br][br] |
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