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.”
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.
Easton – I’m trying to find that out. They aren’t mentioning it on their blogs.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ is their official blog. Narry a mention of the problem.
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!