Gmail is down for many (Update: Google+ too)

Update 3: Google says all issues with Gmail should be resolved but some other services are still experiencing outages:

Update 2: Google says it’s investigating:

Update: Many users report being unable to access Google+ in addition to Gmail.

Google is yet to update its app status page to reflect the outage, but an increasing number of users are reporting problems with Gmail. Many users get the error message pictured above and are unable to send or view emails at all. We’re reaching out to Google about the problem and we’ll update here when we know more.

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@9to5google Gmail is down.

— Vicente Campos (@VicenteCampos) January 24, 2014

If Twitter goes down at this point, we’re back to stone axes and mammoth hunting, right?

— Tim Bray (@timbray) January 24, 2014