Gmail has a bad day and the online world moans...

Wow, who would have thought how many people would be affected by Google's Gmail going down for a bit. You'll be pleased to know if you are reading this now that it is back up and working but no official explanation as to what happened.

When trying to load Gmail earlier you were greated with this image:

People who were tweeting about it on Twitter actually brought Twitter search down also due to the sheer number of people searching for similar tweets etc. I wonder what sort of spike Hotmail received today...