Twitter fail cause by Gmail

I read through a news from a site and it says that Twitter failed because of Gmail problems. This problem occured in Melbourne. It said that Melbourne had a quiet night on that happening day.
This made me feels that there are a lot of users from Melbourne who log on to Twitter. I bet it gave a big impact towards all the users and it sounds quite troublesome for all the users.
At first, some thought that the problem was caused by Twitter, but in the end they found that the problem isn't caused by Twitter, but was caused by Gmail.

I feel that if any problems ocurred, the website itself should inform the users so that they know what is happening and will not fear that everything will get lost. At least inform the users whats going on and how long does it takes to solve the problem so that users get to know and by the time users can surf Twitter again.

Heres some pictures which i found where users were talking about the problem which occured.

Below this picture is about the problem which occured.

What does all of you out there think about this issue? What I apply above does it make sense? I bet some of you out there is a user of Twitter too. Did you encounter this problem too? Come and share with me and others too.

References: Social Networking News Daily, "Gmail Fail and Twitterfall". Retrieved 24th February 2009
http://socialnetworkingnewsdaily.com/social-networking/gmail-fail-and-twitterfall/

-Rachel-