Count me in. However, the Apps Status Dashboard shows that Gmail should be working, so probably you're right with the small subset affected.

I'm not sure it's a really a small subset of users. My personal gmail is down as are all accounts in two different Google Apps organizations I belong to.

The App Status Dashboard also shows that it should be working for me, however I get the server error.

West Coast, US.

The dashboard is probably manually updated.

not if Twitter has anything to say about it