Update: Gmail's back up
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It's not just you: Gmail is indeed down. We've been unable to connect to the popular email service from Google and receiving errors for at least 15-20 minutes (as of 4:00pm ET) and we're not alone, as there are already thousands of tweets from frustrated users sharing the experience.
No word yet on the cause of the outage or when service might be restored. We'll update here when we learn more.
Update #1: Google acknowledges it's having some serious issues right now:
"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 4:53:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.