Gmail Fail

I was trying to send an invite to Derek and it wouldn’t go through to his gmail account for some reason. Then I couldn’t check my work email either, which uses google apps.

All I got was this:

Then I checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and saw this:

Then I headed over to Twitter to see what other people were saying and a flood of messages were posted in the last minute. As I refreshed the page, I got this:

That’s a “gmail twitter double fail.”

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#1 written by Greg Hsu
about 1 year ago

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This is a really funny post jen! I was actually busy meeting w/ someone when the GMail meltdown sent the world into meltdown so I missed the drama/extreme frustration of it all.
-greg

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