GMail Outage
It would seem that Google is having a massive GMail outage right now. I first noticed about 5:20pm ET, and the service briefly came back up for me about 20 minutes later. The main version of GMail is still down as of this writing, but I was able to read mail by using the non-AJAX version.
The outage seems to be worldwide, a query for ‘GMail’ at search.twitter.com returns angry tweets from around the world.
There is no official explanation of the outage yet, but I’ll update this article again when there is one.
Thanks to my co-worker and HubSpot UI-guy Todd Garland for the GMail Fail Whale image.
[UPDATE] TechCruch, one of my favorite blogs has picked up the story and the image!
[UPDATE 2] GMail seems to be back up.
[UPDATE 3] Google has posted an apology on their blog, well done.
Tags: gmail down, gmail fail whale
HubSpot creativity
Props HubSpot
Nice post so quickly after Gmail fail. Way to do it!
Nice going (you and Toddo)!
[...] next to my desk said “hey Todd, you should make a GMail fail whale”. So, I did. Dan posted the image on his blog and I also emailed it to TechCrunch since they had a story going on the GMail outage. Luckily, [...]
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