Gmail’s Back Up! (But What Happened?)

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Gmail Up Image As you’re probably aware, Gmail’s been down for an extended period of time today. It’s placed stress on Twitter and other parts of the Internet as people have panicked at every opportunity (for example, most of the Mashable team).

Gmail seems to be back up, however. We just got through, although I had to prove I was not an evil robot attacking Google. We haven’t received word from Google yet as to what caused the downtime. However, Google did publish a blog post on the situation about an hour ago. Here’s the full text:

“We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain. We don’t usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we’re currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly. If you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail that way in the meantime. We’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get Gmail back up and running as soon as possible.”

We’ll update everyone when we know what caused the downtime.

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