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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?"
When software-related stuff just stops working after I've changed nothing, I usually assume it's the website that went down. It's a bit shocking that people "complained" about it. Phones do stop working from time-to-time. Even POTS only has 99.995% reliability not 100%.
Of course most people aren't logical..... there's a new photo going-round facebook that claims Obama made gas prices go down, and therefore we should re-elect him. Problem: Historical data shows prices went upward from ~$2.70 when the president started. But explaining this to the photo posters usually gets shotdown ("You're just a racist" is the typical comeback). Anyway it's illogical to expect Google Phone or Skype to have 100% reliability. Like any machine they break from time-to-time. No reason to complain about it.
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