(Image source from: Google Hangouts)

If you had logged into Google’s real-time chat services, including Hangouts in Google+, Gmail, you might have received messages like “[User] did not receive your chat” or a loading animation with “Things are taking longer than expected” is showing up in the Hangouts chat tab. That was recause Google's real time chat services like Google chat, Google + and hangouts were down yesterday.

Although the outage wasn't widespread, Twitter and other sources confirm the service interruption extended to a large group of users.

UPDATE: Google provided the following statement regarding the outage -

Hi there,

We’re investigating reports of an issue with Google+ Hangouts. We will provide more information shortly.

Please check the Apps Status Dashboard for further information: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

Thanks,

The Press Team

UPDATE: Google Spreadsheets appear to be down, too, with users having trouble either accessing existing ones or creating new ones. Other Google Docs formats appear to be unaffected. UPDATE 2: Docs Spreadsheets appear to be back online for many who were experiencing problems.

UPDATE: Google has also addressed the outage with a Tweet from its official account, which is fairly casual in tone for such a lengthy down time – https://twitter.com/google/status/445623370273808384

UPDATE 11:23 AM PT: Hangouts and Gchat appear to be working for many once again, around a couple hours after the outage first began. Let us know if you’re seeing service restored.

However, seems the issue is resolved now.

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