So what happens when Gmail, the largest provider of Email in the world, goes down?
Well Twitter Fails too of course! They’re surfing right at capacity and as more people figure out gmail is down they’re turning to twitter to figure out whats goin on!

When these tidal waves of tweets come in from twitter, like when MJ died, or Gmail, what is the name for those waves of tweets?

Tweetal Waves?

Twitter FAil Whale