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Please take a moment to go here to send a note to President Obama and your representatives in Congress urging them to support the repealing of the unconstitutional and discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. It takes no time at all. Thank you!

I reluctantly admit it, Twitter is good for something. I was having gmail problems and wanted to find out if it was localized or if gmail was–as it appeared–down. I searched “gmail is down” (in google, of course) and the top result said “Is gmail down? Ask Twitter!”

Huh…well yeah I guess that’s good advice, thought I. So I went to Twitter.com only to be told that Twitter was busy, as there were too many tweets! Uh oh! Internet meltdown! But I hit refresh about 30 seconds later and I was able to search for “gmail”. I was greeted with a great many tweets indicating that gmail was down. Shortly thereafter a nifty Web 2.0-y notice appeared on the page telling me that there were 633 new results matching my query since I searched…and this was in less than a minute. That’s pretty impressive.

So yeah, gmail is down. And Twitter–a site I don’t really give a damn about–is good for telling me that gmail–a site I’m glued to all day–is down. Thanks for the tweets!