It's the go-to video conferencing work for millions of radical astir the world, but it appears that Zoom is experiencing issues this afternoon. 

According to Down Detector, the problems started astatine astir 16:25 BST, and are affecting users astir the world. 

So far, much than 40,000 reports person been logged connected the US mentation of Down Detector, portion much than 3,000 Brits person besides reported problems. 

Zoom tweeted: 'We are alert of issues presently impacting Zoom. Our engineering squad is investigating this matter.' 

While the crushed for the outage remains unclear, of those who reported issues successful the US, 59 per cent said they were having problems joining conferences, 28 per cent were experiencing an contented with the server connection, and 13 per cent were struggling to login. 

Several Zoom users person taken to Twitter to sermon the outage. 

One idiosyncratic wrote: 'Zoom being down is similar the big equivalent of a snowfall time successful a WFH world.'

Another added: 'Zoomis down! Everyone rejoice astatine their abrupt escaped time.'

And 1 joked: 'ZOOM IS DOWN wow, we made it this acold into the pandemic but it yet happened.'

While astir radical hadn't heard of Zoom earlier the pandemic, it's go the go-to video conferencing service. 

According to Earth Web, Zoom present has a whopping 350 cardinal regular gathering participants.

Thankfully, amid the Zoom outage, determination are respective alternate options. 

This includes GoToMeeting, Cisco Webex Meetings and Google Hangouts Meet. 

Zoom isn't the lone level experiencing issues today. 

Earlier, TikTok crashed for millions of radical astir the satellite for astir an hour.