Microsoft Outlook appeared to crash on Thursday, leaving lots of people scrambling as the work day began in the United States. Reports of issues spiked on Down Detector around the early East Coast hours.

Well, Gmail was paying attention, and the official account on X dropped a perfectly-timed post that has now gone viral. "It's a great day to send an email," the post read. As of Thursday afternoon, the post from Gmail has over 818,000 views.

Microsoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.… The troubles, according to Microsoft's service status page, began at 2220 UTC on July 9 when it confirmed "users may be unable to access their mailbox using any connection methods.