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Gmail is Down - Twitter Beats Mainstream Media Again

Ryan James OSullivan, on Twitter, joking, I hope:

@RJO: OMG GMAIL IS DOWN MY LIFE ... ITS DESTROYED!!!

Here's yet another example of why so many people are so tuned in to Twitter. Gmail has been down, worldwide in my experience, for over 1/2 an hour, impacting a lot of people. No mention, through Google News search, of the outage. Twitter is a source of news, information, and camaraderie and a great place to kvetch in 140 characters at a time. Rock on.....

During the worldwide outage, as Techcrunch reports, "the productivity of 20 million people worldwide just spiked upward."

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BL Ochman | Aug 11 08 5:37 | TrackBack (0)

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Does Google have a Twitter account? What about Gmail? If they did, they could be putting out all kinds of updates. Even just a "sorry, no clue what's up, working on it" every few minutes would be nice.

Thanks for highlighting this BL.

Posted by: Easton Ellsworth at August 11, 2008 6:12 PM

Easton - I'm trying to find that out. They aren't mentioning it on their blogs.

Posted by: BL Ochman at August 11, 2008 7:05 PM

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ is their official blog. Narry a mention of the problem.

Posted by: Howard Greenstein at August 11, 2008 7:45 PM

Yep, I'm one of the multitude who voiced my woes about the Gmail outage over Twitter. It's a useful little tool... especially joined with TwitterFox :) But I'm so glad to have my 27000-email Gmail inbox back up and running!

Posted by: Trialia at August 12, 2008 12:08 PM

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B.L. Ochman, Managing Director of Emerging Media for Proof Integrated Communications, the digital marketing arm of Burson-Marsteller, has been helping Fortune 500 companies strategically incorporate new media into their marketing mix since 1996.

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