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Update: Gmail is back online.

Googles popular email service Gmail is having a bad day, as a myriad of users are complaining of 500 errors when trying to access their accounts, the company confirmed.

Thanks everyone for the reports of 500 errors, were working on it: http://t.co/VNCNNdIN, the Gmail Twitter account tweeted Tuesday morning.

The service disruption, which started at approximately 9:42 a.m. Pacific Tuesday morning, is affecting both Gmail and Google Apps users, and is widespread enough that the outage is dominating Twitter conversations. #Gmail is currently a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

Google has not provided an explanation for Tuesdays mysterious down time, but said that it is currently investigating the cause of the issue. The company also indicated at 10:24 a.m.... [via VentureBeat]