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Meanwhile, Twitter, usually a reliable medium for finding out if it’s “just me” or the Internet at-large, is once again running on a significant delay both on your friend’s timeline and in Twitter Search, meaning that discussion of the Gmail outage – which now appears to be widespread – didn’t surface for about 30 minutes.
Twitter has been dealing with this issue on and off for a few weeks now, but is doing a relatively good job keeping everyone informed on the Twitter Status Blog.