Gmail goes down but Twitter survives
Posted by
LiNTEK
Aug 11
Google’s Gmail service experienced a system-wide outage today, the outage has affected regular Gmail accounts and Gmail enterprise users. On the other hand, Twitter survived the sudden spike in traffic after frustrated Gmail users used it to air their grievances to the Gmail outage.
Below is the message showing up after logging in:
Temporary Error (502)
We’re sorry, but your [Gmail]* account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
Gmail according to Google Groups is aware of what happened.
Popularity: 6% [?]
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I’ve experienced this last night. It was my first time to encounter such message and I kinda panicked thinking all of my messages could be affected. Now Gmail’s back and everything’s back to normal again.
i get that all the time, i got so pissed i decided to open a yahoo email account. thanks for dropping by the way.