Conservative websites Drudge Report and Breitbart News experienced technical difficulties and were briefly down Tuesday afternoon.
Twitter users noted that a 502 error appeared when they tried to access either website.
Drudge is down, and now Breitbart News pic.twitter.com/X3QZzDHXSt
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) July 17, 2018
DRUDGE AND BREITBART ARE BOTH DOWN!!!!
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) July 17, 2018
The websites were both accessible again shortly before 4 p.m. ET.
Others experiencing tech issues were Warcraft gamers, according to Blizzard Entertainment, and Discord, which said Snapchat was also impacted, and pointed to a Google notification saying multiple services had reported difficulties with their Google Cloud Platform.
Nope, Google’s experiencing an issue. As noted here: https://t.co/SEnGs2x1v7
— Justin (@xxdesmus) July 17, 2018
This isn’t the first hiccup the Internet saw this week. On Monday, Amazon’s website experienced technical difficulties at the start of its Prime Day sale.
