Some of you may have noticed that Gmail went down today, tho only for a few minutes.   It caused panic in the Twitter sphere!  People were twittering about the Gmail  outage at a rate of 120 tweets per minute.

If your Gmail stops working there are a few things to check:

The Google Apps status page is your best bet.  Here they will give details of each outage, when it occurred and possible resolution time.

Another handy site is,downforeveryoneorjustme.com

You can see if a website is just down for you or for the world

If neither of these give you a satisfactory answer, simply do a Twitter search

If you enter a search term like Gmail or Gmail down you will quickly find people talking about the possible outage and whether it is world wide.

I hope this was helpful.  If anyone else has anything to add please do comment below.

Fintan