Gmail down | Gmail outage | Gmail Status

I heard that Gmail is down and that many people are worried about it. The Gmail outage was experienced today by many users. As on my end, I haven't experienced the Gmail outage. So far the Gmail status as far as I am concerned is normal, I have just accessed my Gmail without any problem. But there is a post in the Gmail Blog that reads like this:

We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain. We don't usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we're currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly. If you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail that way in the meantime. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get Gmail back up and running as soon as possible.