The Google Play Store briefly went down for some users yesterday, leaving them unable to browse or download apps. This also came during a Facebook and Instagram outage. Now, Google has revealed what happened.
A company spokesperson issued a statement on the technical issue to Android Authority:
We saw a surge in traffic starting around 7:25 AM Pacific Time on March 5, and we scaled up our systems to serve the additional load.
A source also told us that the company saw an increase in people visiting Google following Meta’s own outages, resulting in more traffic than normal. The source insisted that only a few users were affected and that there was no evidence that this technical issue was due to a cyber-attack.
