UPDATE: As of 2:17 PDT, the service appears to be back online
Users on various message boards and media across the country are reporting that Gmail is down
Gmail users get a "502 Server Error" page when trying to access their email. On its Apps Status Dashboard, Google has acknowledged the service disruption, and it appears that the issue is limited only to the Gmail service. On its Gmail blog, David Besbris, Engineering Director, writes:
"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 . . . 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. "
Google's Gmail has had problems on at least two occasions in the last year.
But the Gmail failure is Twitter's gain. Twitter traffic has gone volcanic in the last hour with curious Gmail users seeking answers to the problem.
