AOL outages and service status in Southam, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Southam, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Southam, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports Near Southam, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Southam and nearby locations:

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  fiona simpson savoia (@fionasimpsonsav) reported 59 minutes ago from Coventry, England

  @AOL I can send on My phone and see my new messages on the aol app ,but. Not Able to receive new messages on my phone .keep getting an account error message .help !

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Valphrex (@Valphrex) reported 6 minutes ago

  @oldmedia I know that this is kind of dumb, but I actually miss the AOL dial-up. It was annoying, and it kept my parents from being able to call anyone, but it was a very specific time we'll never get back. I was a young teenager experiencing online freedom for the first time.

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  Ian Simpson (@IanSimp76266808) reported 8 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 90 points. Never had AOL, and never had a Walkman.

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  Mayank Agrawal (@mayankagrawal) reported 10 minutes ago

  Should we need to pay for email? In 2006, AOL and Yahoo announced priority delivery for senders willing to pay somewhere around a penny per message, with the promise that those messages would bypass the spam filter. The diagnosis behind it was correct. Email often breaks because sending is free, and when volume costs nothing, volume becomes the strategy (hello AI outbound!). Everything built afterward (filters, blocklists, sender reputation scores) is an attempt to patch a problem that is fundamentally about economics, and not about technology. Today, the same dynamic plays out on a much larger surface. AI agents can complete forms, take surveys, open accounts, and browse sites at a scale that would have been unimaginable for a spam operation twenty years ago, and most of that activity still registers in company dashboards as ordinary human demand. What I find most encouraging about Proof of Human is that this doesn't require the previous tradeoff. There's no toll, no puzzle, and nothing for a genuine visitor to notice or solve, because verification runs continuously in the background across the whole session rather than at a single checkpoint. When a decision does get made, there's a record behind it that a team can actually inspect, rather than an opaque score they're asked to trust. The email industry spent two decades learning that you can't tax your way to trust, and that authentication works better than obstruction. That lesson is worth carrying into whatever comes next.

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  Mari Luukkainen (@mariluukkainen) reported 11 minutes ago

  Airtable just got acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.2B+. The company raised $1.4B in funding and was valued at $11.7B in 2021. It has $480M in ARR growing 20 percent and filed for an IPO five months ago. None of that mattered and $2.25B equity value barely clears the preference stack. Early employees and common shareholders split what is left after investors get their liquidation preferences back. Bending Spoons collects SaaS companies the way private equity collects distressed assets. AOL, Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, now Airtable. They listed on Nasdaq three weeks ago and this is already their first post-IPO acquisition. Airtable is not a bad company. $480M ARR and 80 percent of the Fortune 100 as customers is a good business. The lesson is that raising $1.4B at an $11.7B valuation in 2021 set a bar that no amount of revenue growth could clear. The preference stack becomes the ceiling. Basically it's another corpse of bloated valuations of that period of time. What Airtable would look like if it had raised $50M instead of $1.4B? Same product, market and ARR trajectory. At $480M ARR a $1.285B exit would have been a massive win for everyone involved. The money that was supposed to be rocket fuel became the weight that dragged it down. Also worth noting: Bending Spoons is an Italian company buying American tech at a discount. The narrative that European tech cannot compete is aging badly. It is just competing differently, not by building hype but by buying the hangover.

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  Call Your First Witness (@RickRoot714) reported 12 minutes ago

  @jonstewart Wasn’t the implosion of AOL caused because they started out charging their customers use by the hour and people were paying three and $400 a month to use AOL, because they were fresh, they were new and everybody wanted in. Then along came Earthlink and other dial-up network providers who charged you $20 a month. And people were leaving AOL in droves. And the bottom fell out.

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  Ramp Monsters (@RampMonsters) reported 14 minutes ago

  @HurricaneStiz I’m old and washed now. Around 2000 on AOL college football chat I was dominating the nerds so bad. 2001 was insane. So many stars in NFL. It was a scrolling cascading chat. Twitter was too. First tweets you texted a phone number then waited for your tweet to scroll by.

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  MetalAngler (@4stringsandrods) reported 15 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 18. Never had waterbed or AOL address.

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  W.R. Schock, QBD (@iontecs_pemf) reported 16 minutes ago

  @eyecewe @hthieblot It was a masterpiece. AOL, spawn of hell, bought out Netscape in 1998 & deliberately destroyed it trying to force people back to hell. Worst decision in internet history.

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  James Driver (@pawpawchief) reported 25 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19. Never had an AOL address.

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  Jacob Jackson (@ChangeJatelo) reported 29 minutes ago

  @citizentvkenya Sorry to say but Prof has gone AOL for too long genuinely focusing on Kisumu County which is full of insecurity though. I have no personal problem with Prof but Vision 2060 can only be real if we do the basics right.