The popular video conferencing platform Google Meet experienced a significant partial outage for many users across India on Wednesday morning, with hundreds reporting difficulty joining online meetings, leading to immediate reaction on social media.
November 26, 2025: Work-from-home schedules and corporate meetings were unexpectedly disrupted this morning as the Google Meet platform suffered a reported downtime.
Independent tracking service Downdetector registered a sharp spike in complaints, with over 981 users in India reporting issues with the platform by 11:49 a.m. The overwhelming majority of reports pointed specifically to problems joining scheduled meetings and website access, with some users reporting receiving a “502 That’s an error” message.
Netizens Express Outrage and Relief
The outage, which occurred during peak working hours, prompted a flurry of activity on X (formerly Twitter). The comments reflected a mix of frustration over the disruption and humorous relief at escaping scheduled calls.
- One user captured the sentiment of many, writing: “google meet crashed before my will to work did.”
- Another user, pointing to the platform’s fragility, questioned: “Google meet is down!! Why every big tech is going down this month?”
- A third user, who found the service still working for them, posted, “Google meet is down for everyone in my org but not for me,” expressing a common dread.
Part of a Trend of Major Tech Failures
The disruption is the latest in a series of major outages that have impacted critical internet infrastructure in recent weeks, raising concerns about the centralization and stability of cloud services.
Just a week ago, a major outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare took down vast swathes of the internet globally, impacting high-profile services including X, Canva, and ChatGPT. Cloudflare’s Chief Technology Officer, Dane Knecht, later publicly acknowledged that the company had “failed” its customers due to a problem within its internal network.
While Google has not yet provided an official statement confirming the cause of today’s Meet outage, the incident highlights the fragility of the global digital infrastructure and the immediate, widespread impact a technical glitch at a major cloud provider can have on daily professional life.