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Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage
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?"
And now they are flooding G+ complaining about Twitter.
People, free services owe you nothing.
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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"
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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What else would they say? "our engineers are sitting on their collective asses and hoping this will soon resolve itself"?