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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. Good to know... by AngryDeuce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:Good to know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Really? I would think the typical comeback would be that has proved were at an all-time high (over $4) in early 2008, at the tail end of the Bush administration, and only dropped to $2.70 at the 2009 inauguration because of the big economic collapse we had. But I guess anyone still voting Republican must have a pretty short memory!

  2. News just in "Angry twitterers" flood G+ with..... by djsmiley · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And now they are flooding G+ complaining about Twitter.

    People, free services owe you nothing.

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  3. Re:News just in "Angry twitterers" flood G+ with.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing is free, if I was an advertiser who paid good money for mined twitter data or injected (sponsored) content I'd be pissed right now, let alone the users.

  4. You know you're old when... by gishzida · · Score: 5, Insightful

    USENET was social networking

    I have a hard time understanding why people would whine about an outage from a free service. As for "paying customers" -- what were you thinking? You're getting exactly what you paid for a cheap service level. This isn't Old Ma Bell. There is no non-carrier VoIP service has the service level of Ma Bell's wired network. .
    Remember that "fast and cheap" is also = "prone to outage"

  5. Re:It happens...have a backup by ilsaloving · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if your cell phone has a data-only plan and you rely on VOIP for your calls? :3

  6. Re:It happens...have a backup by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if your cell phone has a data-only plan and you rely on VOIP for your calls? :3

    Then you lose a few nerd points for not having a backup system ready and waiting.

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  7. Re:Er... isn't twitter down? by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What else would they say? "our engineers are sitting on their collective asses and hoping this will soon resolve itself"?