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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. Meanwhile by benjymous · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twitter seems to have gone down too

    http://status.twitter.com/

    Mass internet implosion?

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  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: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.

  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. Meanwhile by vsigma · · Score: 5, Funny

    productivity shot wayyyy up!

  6. "Cloud Service" by Anonymous Coward · · 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?

  7. 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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  8. 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!!!!'"

  9. 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"?