Yahoo has apologized for a tweet from its main Twitter account that noted Google's Gmail had suffered an outage.
The tweet, which has since been deleted, simply noted: "Gmail is temporarily unavailable" and included a screen shot to prove it.
Yahoo later tweeted an apology.
The @Yahoo Twitter handle is used by our editorial team to inform about news and events.— Yahoo (@Yahoo) January 24, 2014
Earlier today, a tweet that reflected bad judgment was posted and has been deleted. We apologize to @Google and the @Gmail team.— Yahoo (@Yahoo) January 24, 2014
The original message by Yahoo was received with plenty of snark.
That's like Kia making fun of BMW... RT .@Yahoo Gmail is temporarily unavailable http://t.co/a0H0HMEctb— Jeff Ferguson (@CountXero) January 24, 2014
Not even Yahoo people use Yahoo mail RT @Yahoo: Gmail is temporarily unavailable http://t.co/klT0NzBoVM— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 24, 2014
Numerous Twitter users also noted that Yahoo endured its own problems in December, some of which prevented users from accessing their email accounts for multiple days.
The apology also spurred some comment as well.
Only Yahoo could come out of a Gmail outage looking worse than Google.— Tom Krazit (@tomkrazit) January 24, 2014