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A Zoom outage prevented thousands of people from joining meetings, using the website
- Zoom users encountered issues accessing the service on Wednesday afternoon, preventing meeting access.
- Zoom's popularity surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, making it a relied-upon tool for many companies.
- Many users reported issues joining meetings and accessing the website around 3:15 p.m. E.T.
- Downdetector.com reported over 60,000 outage reports; Zoom posted at 4:33 p.m. on X that "a restore is underway."
- Service appeared to be mostly restored within approximately two hours, and social media reacted with mixed celebration and complaints.
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By Matthew Kaufman, CNN Tens of thousands of people likely got a break from their meetings Wednesday when Zoom outages prevented users from joining meetings and accessing the website. The outages peaked shortly after 3 p.m. ET, and service was mostly restored about two hours after the failure, according to the outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. A Zoom spokesperson said in an email to CNN that the company was aware that “some users were ex…
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