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Comment by jbyers | Hacker News Reader

No Google status update as of the time of the orignal post, but a quick Twitter search suggests this is a widespread problem: https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail

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http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com

That page appears to be down as well. I guess everyone is checking it at the same time. :)

Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose; you'd think they'd add it as another monitoring source.

    Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose

This went away in mid 2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...

I'm pretty sure they are aware that there's a problem

Revised statement: "I wonder if Google processes the twitter feed looking for keywords to assist in monitoring their most-used services"

It happened at one point. Turns out it's kind of superfluous, and a fairly noisy data source.

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