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?"

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[benjymous]

Twitter seems to have gone down too

http://status.twitter.com/ [twitter.com]

Mass internet implosion?

Internet down, not Google

[cstacy]

It's not just Google Talk. This morning around 4 AM I could not reach most of the west coast reliably. I could get to Google (search) mostly, but all kinds of sites and services I wanted were unavailable. The traceoute from Washington D.C. stopped about 12 miles to the west at an above.net router.