No Google status update as of the time of the orignal post, but a quick Twitter search suggests this is a widespread problem: https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail
Gmail was down
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#42Then we all turned around and went back into our offices to check HN to see if it was just us.
Very funny that everyone reading this did something similar. 84 points in 4 minutes.
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#44Top of the front page in less than a minute. What does it say about us that our first response is to rush over to HN?
I suppose that the logic is "hey, I wonder if it's just us... surely someone on HN will complain the instant that things go south, better check there first."
Checking twitter never occurs to me...
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#45Confirmed by my own email not working.... Probably limited to a small subset of users though.
Count me in. However, the Apps Status Dashboard shows that Gmail should be working, so probably you're right with the small subset affected.
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#46Any idea how many Google services are affected by this right now?
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#47Say where you are located. It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay).
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#50Would save us all a massive amount of time continually refreshing the page. I realize a browser extension could do this too, but SMS would be much better.