Gmail suffered a worldwide outage at approximately 2pm today. Twitter was flooded with users lamenting the sudden interruption. What better time for brands to spring into action? We’re disappointed in you, @Oreo.
Pumps, anyone?
Email isn’t your most loyal friend.
Yahoo, but for the grace of God…
Nice sweepstakes tie-in.
Are Gmail outages the only reason to watch NCIS?
We were the thinking the same thing.
Screw Google, we’re going to MoMA.
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