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 9:00am ET. 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 10:00am ET, 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.
