Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 26, 2012 @03:49AM 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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"Cloud Service" by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-26 04:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

users of the downed cloud service

cloud service
Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy, Slashdot (and I'm looking at you, alphadogg). Since when did chat services become "Cloud Services"?
Is IRC a "CLOUD Service"? Is AOL Instant Messenger a "Cloud Service"? Are MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger "Cloud Services"?
XMPP is a "Cloud" protocol? Yes? Yes?