Google confirms global Gmail outage, says everything now okay

Google has confirmed that its email client Gmail suffered downtime earlier today but says that the service is fully functional once again.

The disruption, which Google claims affected less than two percent of users worldwide, saw many unable to access their mail.

Naturally, this led some to vent their frustrations on Twitter although most saw the funny side:

Just over an hour after it first acknowledged the existence of the problem Google was reporting that the service had been completely restored.

The internet giant has not yet provided an explanation for what might have caused the outage. While the percentage of users affected was relatively small, it does appear to have been a worldwide phenomenon.

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