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Gmail is Down - September 1, 2009

by downrightnow | September 1, 2009 at 12:29 pm

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Gmail is experiencing a widespread service disruption today, confirmed by numerous Internet users and Google itself. Google has announced that it expects the issue to be resolved by approximately 5:15pm ET.

You can report an issue or check the latest status at downrightnow.com/gmail. downrightnow monitors outages at popular web services such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.

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Susan Marie Kovalinsky

at 13:20 on September 1st, 2009

I wondered what was going on!!! grrrrrrrrr

Yuliya Talmazan

at 15:24 on September 1st, 2009

People on Twitter are giving advice on how to check your gmail while it is down. It might be useful for heavy gmail users still without service.

Babel-Fish

at 16:09 on September 1st, 2009

Its okay today. It does go down sometimes but its normally up and running quickly I never get upset as a heavy user.

A. Tran

at 17:39 on September 1st, 2009

Apparently, there were some service interruptions yesterday as well.

Jay Nancarrow, a Google spokesman, said in an e-mail to Computerworld that the service was down for about an hour and 45 minutes. He added that it affected the majority of Gmail's tens of millions of users.

Alyzee

at 23:02 on September 1st, 2009

I had a scare today because I didn't know how reliant I was on gmail. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a duplicate account with all my stuff on it.