Gmail, the most widely used email service across world, was down on Thursday afternoon in India and other countries. After a large number of users on Twitter started complaining of the outage, Google, the tech giant issued a short statement confirming the disruption.

A statement on Google Apps status page, "We are investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly.”

Several users complained that they are unable to login, while some said they are unable to attach documents in their mails.

As per the DownDetector portal, which tracks outages, over 62 per cent people faced problems with attachments and 25 per cent reported issues with log-ins.

While some users sure seemed irked at the unexpected disruption, some felt relieved on getting a short break from work mails.

Twitterers were a busy lot -  creating hilarious memes and jokes. Take a look here: