Larry Page is sorry that you can't get any work done right now. (Photo: Flickr.com/crazybob)

Some users are unable to access Gmail this morning. Google's Apps Status Dashboard confirms that the mail service is experiencing some "service disruption"—once around 3 a.m., which was resolved in two minutes, and again starting at 11 a.m. today. "We're experiencing an issue affecting less than 1.38% of the Google Mail user base," Google says. "The affected users are unable to access Google Mail." The company promises an update by 12:31 p.m. (estimated) with an explanation and timetable for when it will be able to resolve the problem.

As Google has said Gmail has more than 350 million users, that means 4,830,000 people are potentially affected. Those users popped up a Google error 152, which means there are too many muxwaiters, or something.

Last week, Gmail was down for more than an hour but "less than .11 percent" of users were affected, including this reporter.

Anyway, Gmail is down, which explains why your Twitter feed was so hoppin' this morning.

UPDATE: 12:40 p.m. Gmail is back up. "We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better," said Google.

If you're seeing a 'Temporary Error' message when you try to sign in to Gmail, it means that your mail is temporarily unavailable. These errors generally resolve themselves within a few minutes, so please wait a bit before trying to log in again. Please note that while Gmail is inaccessible, your messages and personal information are safe.

Google's Apps Status Dashboard confirms that Gmail has had a service interruption as of 9:20 a.m. this morning. (Under "detailed technical info," Google just says "Numeric Code: 152," and you can read the obtuse explanation of that here.)

It's unclear how many users are affected by the outage. Last time Gmail experienced a mass outage was on April 17, when Google said less than 2 percent of users were affected.

Gmail appears to be inaccessible through the web and through third parties using IMAP, and the people of Twitter are not happy. Google is investigating the issue. Google's press team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but maybe their email is just down.

UPDATE, 10:40 a.m. Aaand we're back, but running slow. Don't worry, kids. Whatever hurricane took out an island of Gmail servers must not have been too bad. Gmail is still down for some and returning for others. We'll update when Google releases a statement with more details.

UPDATE, 11:14 a.m. Google sent this statement: "We are aware of an issue, and are currently investigating.  We'll continue to update the Apps Status Dashboard as we work to resolve the problem... less than 0.11% of the Gmail user base are affected by the issue."