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Gmail Faces Brief But Widespread Outage

Just a week after announcing small businesses would be charged for the service

Reason Staff | 12.10.2012 1:00 PM

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Gmail went down briefly this morning before quickly popping back up.

Twitter users took to their accounts to tell the world that their e-mail program wasn't connecting. It appeared that both the consumer version for "gmail.com" accounts were not working, as well as corporate e-mail systems that use Gmail as their e-mail platform.

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