The video calling giant Zoom said just before 9 a.m. ET that it “received reports of users being unable to visit the Zoom website and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars.”
“We have identified the issue causing users to be unable to authenticate to the Zoom website and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars, and we are working on a fix for this issue,” according to Zoom’s status page.
Zoom said the issue was resolved just after 1 p.m. ET.
Not everyone was affected by the outage. Some users reported that their Zoom calls were working. Others said they could not get into their regularly scheduled Zoom meetings.
Since the company’s massive spike in users, thanks to everyone working from home during the pandemic, Zoom has claimed some 300 million daily meeting participants.
As best we can tell from Zoom’s Twitter responses, this issue has been going on for about an hour Down Detector shows problem reports spiking a bit earlier right around 8AM ET, when people started making the long commute from the bedroom to the couch for their first meetings.
