Google mail fail becomes big Twitter tale

Gmail went out around 3 p.m. CST on September 1, 2009. I was in the middle of sending an email, so I turned to Twitter to see if it was me or my computer, or was it affecting other people, too. I had been using Wordle, too, so I set up a Twitterfall search to see how widespread the Gmail outage was. It seems like it was all of the US that was out. I did locate a site where you can see what Google apps are running and which ones aren’t so that’s convenient. My Twitterfall of the Gmail outage is online, and the outage is reported to be of 1.2 hour duration (in addition, I think, to the 45 mins. it has been down.