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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Barry Collins

New Gmail “outage” sets Twitter alight

Twitter is once again ablaze with rumours of a fresh Gmail outage. This one doesn’t appear to be as severe as last month’s two-and-a-half-hour blackout and most of the Twitterverse (sorry) is reporting that the service is back on its feet again.

The graph taken from Twitscoop below shows how quickly word spreads when Google’s mail service takes a nap:

Gmail Twitscoop

With Twitter, it seems you can’t sneeze without someone reporting it. 

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One Response to “ New Gmail “outage” sets Twitter alight ”

  1. hjlupton Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    That level of traffic spike does make me wonder if twitter has become the new IRC, only now you can easily post from anywhere. It always was the case that any slight issue anywhere on the net spread through IRC channels like wild fire, Twitter is certainly sharing that characteristic

     

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