MONDAY morning has been off to a stellar start with most Google services currently unavailable.

The website Down Detector confirmed that all Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Meets and Calendar are experiencing problems.

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Users have also reported difficulties with Facebook.

A number of people took to Twitter to find out the reason behind the failure but it is not yet clear what caused the rare outage.

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