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Relying on a Gmail account for work? Start looking for a new job.

Over the course of the past 48 hours, Gmail has been up and down more than a cheap yoyo.
Now, it's dead as a door nail and shows no signs of coming back to life any time soon.

I'd almost started to feel hopeful for the progress of Gmail, after it's official departure from 'Beta' back a few months ago. Seems I was over optimistic.
It's just as well that I only use Gmail for less important emails.

How's your Gmail holding up?

Filed under // Down Gmail

Twitter Goes Down, Productivity Doubles.

If you’re one of the ~45 million mammals paying a visit to twitter.com over past month, then you’ll know by now that twitter has been down for just over two hours.

During the past two hours, the service has seen itself bombarded with a malicious DoS attack. They join a growing list of companies being targeted by these DoS attacks over the course of the past few weeks, most notably, the Gawker network last weekend.

This brings to light some interesting issues, not least the fact that the technology used to sustain the weight of the latest web trends simply isn’t up to the job of defending against these old school brute force attacks. Having pushed through major infrastructure updates aimed at helping Twitter move past their notorious brown-outs, this latest event hits hard at the service.

With it’s popularity and buzz at an all time high, today's down time will no dough have an impact on newly registered users as well as first time visitors. Though, with research showing that over 20% of registered accounts are bot scripts, maybe not.

So, how did you surviving the twiteclipse?

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