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Google Calendar Dies One Hour After Google Tweets About How Great It Is [Updated—It's Back]

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No, it’s not you. Google Calendar really does appear to be down. Navigating to calendar.google.com will present you with a 404 error.

Twitter users began to complain about the outage at approximate 10:05 AM EST and Gizmodo staff has been unable to navigate to Google Calendar from either the US or Canada.

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This isn’t even the first outage this month. On June 2nd, Google experienced another, apparently more extreme, outage that took out Calendar, Youtube, and a number of third-party apps.

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We’ve reached out to Google for more details and will update when we know more.

No doubt a coincidence, but the last Tweet sent from Google’s G Suite Twitter account was about how the Calendar app makes scheduling simpler.

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Update 10:48am EDT - Google responded to Gizmodo’s inquiry with a link to the G Suite status dashboard. Google is listing the outage as a service disruption and is investigating as of 10:22am EDT.

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Update 12:01pm EDT — At 11:40am EDT Google bumped the problem with Google Calendar up from service disruption to service outage. It is still down.

Update 1:20pm EDT — Calendar appears to be back up and functioning for some people (including myself). Google claims full availability should be returned by 1:40pm EDT. Google has not stated what caused the outage.

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Curiously many people, including one editor at Gizmodo, were sent to a captcha page when attempting to access Google Calendar during the outage. Just yesterday Wired reported on scams targeting Google Calendar and while it is a coincidence that Calendar went out a day after the scams were reported on there is nothing to suggest the two are related. We’ve again reached out to Google for clarity on the matter.

Update 3:19pm EDT - Google confirmed to Gizmodo that the captcha seen by some Calendar users during the outage was “legitimate” and “part of our migration.”

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Also this article previously stated the URL for Calendar is google.calendar.com. That is incorrect and the correct address is reflected above. We regret the error.