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I have a hard time believing these statistics. Unless of course the 1.5% happened to be every single person who happened to have a Twitter, HN, Facebook, or Reddit account and was willing to post about it.


The missing statistic is what % of users are active.

If 97% of users are inactive, and this affected 1.5% of users, then 50% of active users were affected.


Note that they didn't say 1.5% of users, they said 1.5% of messages were affected.


I'm totally aware of how they said what they said, I just don't necessarily believe it.


As a counterpoint, nobody I know experienced any problems with gmail yesterday. Including coworkers.




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