<p>You just can't make a funny in Silicon Valley anymore. At least, not when you're running Yahoo's official Twitter account.</p><p>During yesterday's nearly hour-long outage for both Gmail and Google+ an unexpected bit of downtime that generated its own Twitter hashtags and at least eight more messages per user regarding one's inability to access Gmail Yahoo took its own Twitter account to post a helpful update for those unaware about the downtime.</p><p>"Gmail is temporarily unavailable," read the tongue-in-cheek tweet. Accompanying it was an image of Google's "Temporary Error (500)" page that awaited anyone trying to type gmail.com into their browsers.</p><p>Funny, right? Bold, if nothing else, given the issues Yahoo recently had regarding the availability of its own mail service. We'd rather take an hour of downtime over a week; just sayin'.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2429945,00.asp">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/gmail-goes-down-briefly-and-everybody-flips-out/nc2rG/">Gmail goes down briefly and everybody flips out</a> (Atlanta Journal Constitution)</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/gmail-was-down-for-many-users-friday-afternoon/2014/01/24/8c542d70-852b-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html">Gmail was down for many users Friday afternoon</a> (Washington Post)</p><p><a href="http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/01/24/yahoo-apologizes-to-google-for-gmail-outage-tweet/">Yahoo apologizes to Google for Gmail outage tweet</a> (MarketWatch (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dsI_wfrtc0vMp3MBx_r5RSQJjre0M&authuser=0&ned=us">420 additional articles.</a></p>