Gmail goes down briefly and everybody flips out

(And more than a little regret: "Feeling kind of let down now that Gmail is back," Rolling Stone senior editor Simon Vozick-Levinson tweeted. "Life was so exciting and full of new possibilities for those precious minutes!") Google has not commented on

It's not just you; Gmail appears to be down. Usually when this sort of thing happens it gets resolved quickly, but for now you might be stuck chatting with a real human person in your physical presence.

Gmail was down for 20 minutes while Google engineers were holding an AMA on Reddit. So they answered the question: what do you do when Gmail goes down?

Some Gmail users still experienced problems sending emails for almost an hour though. Google says everything should be working now. Here's a sick burn that Yahoo tweeted about the down time. Yahoo Gmail is down tweet.

Gmail is currently experiencing what appears to be a widespread outage, with reports coming in from Europe, the U.S., Canada, India and beyond that Google's..