Gmail offline today!
This is the first time I have seen the Google Mail service offline. When I’m writing this post the system is currently down. When I visit the site it loads for a couple of seconds, then I get a 502 Server Error message. The time is now 12:37 PM, I believe the system went down at 11:30 AM, Norwegian time. I have not received any information about what is the cause from the Gmail app itself. I searched through the newest posts on digg.com and found out that the system has apparently been offline for almost an hour now. From comment posts at digg.com it appears that the IMAP servers are still working.
Currently everybody is following this case.
- Follow the live feed at twitter. Holy crapamoly 200 tweets in a per minute. Im starting to understand why twitter may be useful.
- BBC news have also joined up on this “breaking news”.
Remember Gmail has over 100 million users. Maybe Google is deploying their final release of Gmail?
“Im starting to understand why twitter may be useful.”
Twitter is extremely useful when it comes to real time events. Yesterday I installed Safari 4 and I couldn’t get the web version of Gmail (after it was confirmed up and running again). I tried Googling Safari 4 and Gmail, but ended up with nothing useful. Then I went to Twitter Search and did the same thing (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=safari+4+gmail). It’s brilliant.
You should get back into it!
Yeah its amazing! I followed some part of the “Spectrial” on twitter too. Its really amazing being able to find information that you need in real-time. Or at least finding useful information that is not indexed in one of the major search engines. Will definitely use it more often in the future.