Gmail Down
August 11, 2008: According to reports, Gmail users were unable to log into their accounts for over an hour on Monday. Users received a "Temporary Error (502)" message when trying to log in.
Other reports claimed that users who were already logged into their accounts prior to the service going down were able to view the messages in their inbox, but once they tried to send an e-mail they received an error message.
No reason has been given for the service outage.
Fast Facts
- Down: August 11, 2008
- Users receive an error message at login
- An estimated 20 million people use Gmail daily
- Developer: Google
Official Message From Gmail
The Gmail team is currently aware of a subset of users being affected by the 502 error on login. Our engineers are looking into the issue and we will provide updates here as they become available.
Thanks,
Gmail Guide
Gmail Down Tweets and Quotes
- "according to the public twitter stream, literally thousands are reporting gmail down. Now over an hour for me."—@vowe
- "Gmail goes down and all life stops for a while. Thank god(s) for twitter. And life begins anew"—@cecilmenk
- "I tried the Gmail HTML link and saw my mail, but when I tried to do something with it, I got a 502 error :-)"—@newscred
- "i'm seriously considering ditching the hosted gmail stuff now, this happens too often."—@mikeg1
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