How many national disasters can the nation endure? Those fortunate enough to have electricity and Internet access after Sandy were shocked to find Google’s Gmail service unresponsive for about two minutes today. What do you do when Gmail fails? Turn to Twitter, of course.
https://twitter.com/drgrist/status/263758819270729728
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/263761650568552448
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/263760597592707072
GMail is down – Time to get pens and start writing letters and placing them in envelopes and putting things called stamps on said envelopes
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 31, 2012
Four long minutes later…
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/263760890078310400
our long national nightmare is over #gmail
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/263760457872060417
Just this morning I projected there was a 77.4% chance Gmail wouldn't go down today. Guess my model is broken.
— Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) October 31, 2012
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