Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Flickr face temporary outage

Yahoo's services were reportedly hit owing to technical glitches, which made the Internet giant's homepage, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Mail and Flickr unavailable to users for a short time.

Yahoo's services were reportedly hit owing to technical glitches, which made the Internet giant's homepage, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Mail and Flickr unavailable to users for a short time.

Affected users took to Twitter to air their grievances and it was not clear how many users were affected and whether only certain geographic regions were affected by the outage.

According to Tech Crunch, Yahoo spokesperson acknowledged that some of the sites went unavailable and they were working quickly to resolve the issue.

The Internet giant recently experienced similar series of outage s across Yahoo Mail, Yahoo, and Flickr that distressed many users.

The report said that Yahoo services appeared to be restored for most of the affected users.