Gmail experiences worldwide outage: report

Have you experienced problems with Gmail this afternoon? You're not alone.

A Gmail outage has affected thousands of users, making it impossible for them to send emails or messages using the popular Google app.

Outages involving Gmail spiked late Thursday afternoon

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The outage was noticed by users around 3 p.m. on Thursday, with DownDetector, a website tracking online issues, reporting nearly 5,000 incidents within an hour.