Liberty is for me…

“Gmail goes dark,” writes Miguel Helft at the New York Times. Google’s email went down for over an hour today. What’s the best way to track this annoying situation? According to Helft, none other than Liberty Girl’s favorite new technology:

One of the best places to track the outage is Twitter. Users are venting their frustrations about Gmail being down — at a rate of 100 or so messages per minute. As a user who calls himself dashmybuttons said, “it’s like a neighborhood blackout, now everyone’s out in the street trying to assess what went wrong.”