Zoom down for more than a thousand users - Downdetector
Downdetector showed there were nearly 2,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Zoom
Zoom Video Communications Inc's video-conferencing platform was down for more than a thousand users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downtector.com.
Downdetector showed there were nearly 2,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Zoom at its peak, at 9am ET (6pm UAE time).
Zoom has seen a meteoric rise in users thanks to remote work and online learning against the backdrop of stay-at-home orders.
Telecom operator Verizon Communication Inc's services were also down for nearly 5,400 users at its peak, at 10am ET (7pm UAE time), according to Downdetector.
Verizon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.