Google Docs Outage and How Social Media Responded to the Crash

Around 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, Google Drive suffered a short outage that disallowed the use of the following applications: Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides.

Google took note of this and assured users that they were actively working to rectify the issue.

Looks like something's up with Docs - but fear not, we're on it & you'll be editing again in no time. Stay tuned here!

— Google Docs (@googledocs) October 9, 2015

Within the next three hours, Drive was back in commission with a confirmation tweet from the search engine service.

Drive is back in business. Thank you for hanging in there while we took care of it. Have a great weekend! — Google Drive (@googledrive) October 9, 2015

While the issue served to some as a minor convenience, many rely on Google Drive for a variety of business-related uses. Users decided to take to social media to voice their complaints (some more satirically than others).

Google Drive is down, so everyone act accordingly https://t.co/XSY9mSCo65 pic.twitter.com/aA3abZ6onl — The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) October 9, 2015

Meanwhile...as everyone tries to log into @googledrive. #GoogleDrive #GoogleDriveDown #Google pic.twitter.com/rAzFjAhyOb — Colt SebastianTaylor (@ColtSTaylor) October 9, 2015

Google Drive...more like Google Park — Chris MelBOOrger (@chrismelberger) October 9, 2015

#GoogleDrive is down, huh? Guess the weekend starts now! pic.twitter.com/nZg08oggsL — Jae Sung (@justjaesung) October 9, 2015

Google drive is down and I have so much work to do that I can't access pic.twitter.com/HWBfQIDQXj

— HeatherSpookyTurner (@heathnoturn) October 9, 2015