I know why GMail went down

Did you experience the great GMail outage of 2014?  Will you someday tell your grandkids where you were during this traumatic time?

From TechCrunch:
"Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes"
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/24/gmail-goes-down-across-the-world/


I've posted some of my favorite tweets from just after the outage ended below.  So why did GMail go down?  Read Amanda Carpenter's tweet...


Social Media Insider ‏@SocialMedia411 34m
    Mercifully, the devastating 10-minute Gmail outage of 2014 is over. Carry on.

Amanda Carpenter ‏@amandacarpenter 35m
    I know why gmail went down. Obama must have promised we could keep it. #onmessage

Mktplace Tech ‏@MarketplaceTech 35m
    One day we will tell our children where we were during the great gmail outage of '14

Danielle Ivory ‏@danielle_ivory 35m
    Raise your hand if you resorted to cannibalism during the Gmail crash.

shonda rhimes ‏@shondarhimes 35m
    Currently rocking back and forth on my office sofa, trying to cope with the loss of my ability to email. Don't do me like this, Gmail.

kelly oxford ‏@kellyoxford 56m
    CONGRATULATIONS GMAIL YOU HAVE US ALL BY THE BALLS .

Kathleen Schmidt ‏@Bookgirl96 1h
    The 5 people who still have AOL email accounts are laughing at all of us now. #gmail

Chase Mitchell ‏@ChaseMit 1h
    Did Justin Bieber just crash his car into Gmail?

Aura Bogado ‏@aurabogado 1h
    All I want to know is whether the NSA has saved a draft of the Gmail I was working on. I sure could use it.