Gmail Goes Down, Chrome Crashes for Many Users

Google's Gmail briefly went down Monday and its Chrome web browser repeatedly crashed, users reported.

Google's status page also confirmed that there was a "service disruption" for Gmail.

Twitter users sent tweets about not being able to access their Gmail account and about continuous Chrome crashes. The hashtag "Gmail" also was a top trending term on Twitter around midday Eastern time.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.