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Re: Gmail was down

#41
post #14

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

Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose; you'd think they'd add it as another monitoring source.

Re: Gmail was down

#42
Very funny that me and my coworkers at nearly the same time opened our office doors to look into each others eyes and silently confirm that we were having the same issue.

Then 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.

Re: Gmail was down

#44

Top 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?

Took the words out of my mouth.

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...

Re: Gmail was down

#45
post #11
post #2

Confirmed 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.

I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.

Re: Gmail was down

#46
Our Google Apps for Biz is down as well.. 10 minutes or so. Getting 503's from Blogger and errors from Google Plus.

Any idea how many Google services are affected by this right now?

Re: Gmail was down

#50
Anyone have the ability to write a quick Twilio app to notify people via SMS when it goes back up?

Would 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.

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