Crowdsourcing internet site status

There I was, checking my email and writing the odd mail I should have written long ago when all of a sudden gmail tells me it can’t connect and presumptuously suggests my internet connection is down.

Twitter to the rescue… http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail+down and you’ll get the basic idea. I’m fairly sure it can be used to check other new items too.

I also stumbled upon http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gmail.com and just as gmail served me a 502 server error, the aforementioned site said that “it’s not just you”…