Whoa!  4:30pm EST on 1 Sept.  Are aliens landing?  If they were, I wouldn’t know – because both Twitter and Gmail are down at the same time!

Gmail gives me a 502 server error, then offers this as to the status:

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Tried to then tweet about it, but then saw that tweets on the subject of “gmail” were coming in at a rate of approximately 4500 every 30 seconds.  Then, when I tried to tweet on it, Twitter keeled on me too:

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Thank goodness Facebook was still working….or are they next?