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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > Even if I had thought of Twitter as an option, it wouuld've been no good > for me. None of the people I needed to reach during the outage are Twitter > users, and I needed to send them more than words. And I doubt I would've > gone that route, even if I'd had the option. I tried Twitter for about an > hour last week. Just not my cuppa. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: ravena...@yahoo.com > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:06:21 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Twitter agog as Google > > http://vaephae.notlong.com > > Google's Gmail goes down for at least half an hour; Twitter lights up > September 1, 2009 | 1:47 pm > > Google-outage Google's Gmail electronic mail platform went down about 1 > p.m. PST for at least some fraction of the Web audience, and it didn't take > long for tens of thousands of Twitter users to note that the service was > offline. > > While the extent of the outage was not immediately clear, for at least a > vocal swath of Twitter users, Gmail was offline for more than 30 minutes, > qualifying it for Google's technical definition of a "downtime period," > rather than simply intermittent spottiness. > > Many of Google's services essentially exist in "the cloud" -- that is, > users interact with programs on Google's servers via the Web, rather than > running them from their own computers. That means the company's business -- > and reputation -- depends on its being available to consumers and business > customers without interruption. > > For paying customers of Google Apps, the company guarantees that the > service will be available at least 99.9% of the time. Any less, and Google > starts to lose money back to businesses, which are credited with free > service days based on the extent of the outage. > > In a 31-day month, there are 44,640 minutes, meaning that the cutoff -- > 0.1% -- means a maximum of about 45 minutes of downtime. As of this writing, > the Gmail outage has lasted about 30 minutes. Consumers who use the free > service, of course, don't get any freebies when Google goes down. > > Gmail went down for about two hours in August of last year as well. > > Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a > spokesperson left the following comment on this post after publication: > > On behalf of Google I wanted to let everyone know that we're really sorry > for the inconvenience and working to fix the problem as fast as we can. If > you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail > that way in the meantime. You can find the latest information on the Apps > Status Dashboard at www.google.com/appsstatus. > > > > ------------------------------ > Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. Try Bing > now.<http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1> > > >
