Gmail in massive web outage

Gmail is widely unavailable to users on both the west and the east coast of the United States, the United Kingdom, and perhaps elsewhere. Even Google is unable to access its own web-based email service. But the service is still able to route mail via POP and IMAP Gmail has experienced several, much-discussed hiccups in recent months, but judging from Google's blog post on the latest outage, this one is particularly widespread. "We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now - we are too, and we definitely feel your pain," the post reads. "We don't usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). 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." The post then points out that users already using POP or IMAP will not have problems. As of 1:35pm West Coast time, Reg staffers in San Francisco, New York, London, and Edinburgh are unable to access the service. And countless users on Facebook and Twitters are complaining about similar issues.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/gmail_titsup_google/