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Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage

Posted by timothy on from the cloudy-out-there-today dept.

alphadogg writes "Google Talk, a desktop and mobile text and voice chat service used by many Google Gmail customers, suffered a widespread outage Thursday morning that the company said was affecting 'a majority of users.' The outage, first reported by Google a little before 7am eastern time, was being restored about 4 hours later, according to Google. Meanwhile, users of the downed cloud service took to Twitter and other avenues to voice their displeasure." Update: 07/26 16:24 GMT by T : wiedzmin writes "It looks like Twitter is experiencing an outage. leaving users unable to access the site on Thursday morning. I wonder if it's related to the Google Talk outage at all, but one thing is for sure — this has stopped a slew of complaints about Google Talk on Twitter. If Twitter is down, where do you tweet about that?"

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  1. It happens...have a backup by Overzeetop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Patience...and a cell phone. I think we'll all live though it.

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  2. Re:Good to know... by Sulphur · · Score: 5, Funny

    And to think I only spent 20 minutes this morning wondering what the fuck I managed to break this time...

    Working fine for me again, btw. Whatever they broke seems fixed unless they're rolling it out in stages...

    It is being phased in 140 bytes at a time.

  3. Meanwhile by vsigma · · Score: 5, Funny

    productivity shot wayyyy up!

  4. It's coming! by clinko · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Dad, you were yelling numbers in your sleep again!"

    "Son, let me tell you of the Rant snowball of 2012. It started with google talk. The complaining spilled over to twitter. After twitter went down, we all knew it was coming. Facebook, blogs, it kept going downhill. People logged into services they forgot existed to complain, MSN, YAHOO messenger! It was madness.

    I only survived by ranting to a spam bot on ICQ, a time before names, '458253 can you hear me! 458253 It's all down! 458253 I highly doubt you're a Nigerian prince!!!!'"

  5. Re:News just in "Angry twitterers" flood G+ with.. by yurtinus · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least they're using G+ for *something*, right?

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    +1 Disagree
  6. This is the actual cause by slashmydots · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm 6 seasons and 2 episodes into the X-files at a rate of about 3 episodes per day on Netflix AND I arrived at work today to find 1 motherboard and 2 power supplies in 3 manager or department heads' PCs were fried due to a power outage AND Twitter and Google Talk are down. So obviously, combining all those pieces of evidence, there's an electricity monster loose in the US power grid.