AOL outages and service status in Smethwick, England
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Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England
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AOL Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:
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Ayr of the Four Winds (@Ayrwalker) reported from Birmingham, England@calligraphymmo @Volstatsz @WarcraftDevs @maelfus I’ve never understood the whole idea of “I don’t like it, so neither should you.” Sega Vs. Nintendo died out years ago with AOL chatrooms (HAHA JOKE ON MATURITY HERE) People neee to let it go and be happy that everyone can find their niche and BE HAPPY! Be a Joy Enabler.
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Samuel Hughes (@samuelbhughes) reported from Birmingham, EnglandSerious judgement to anyone who has ntlworld email addresses. AOL just as bad.
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Ash❗️ (@A_J_92) reported from Birmingham, England@ruthm4x @AOL Did you ever hear back from anyone about this further. It really is unbelievable what has happened. What about using @gmail there service is very user friendly not sure about warning though, I thought all providers would of done this, clearly not with @YahooCare
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Loreta (@lottynew) reported from Beoley, England@GeorgeTranos @AOL Ditto I have exactly the same@problem !!
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mike (@mikewhitehurs12) reported from Wolverhampton, EnglandAll those years ago when listening to the pings of AOL signing in I never expected the net to become such an ******* full of argumentative ********.
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Eleanor leonard (@eleanorleonards) reported from Willenhall, England@aolmailhelp please help ,its impossible to retrieve aol password as I need the password to email you. You neither provide any phone support! you provide twitter support but cannot help on here either. Set up account years ago so no longer have phone num or email for verification
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tracey tutty (@champagnetrace) reported from Birmingham, England@aolmailhelp It seems that my aol email account is down again on iPhone and iPad. Is this happening elsewhere.
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Baz Forrest (@BazForrest) reported from Bromsgrove, England@AOL need help with accessing my email account
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Joe HxC (@Thejoehardcore) reported@xinspiteofx There has never been one message. If there was, there wouldnt be nearly 50 years of people making sounds about unity. Defining fakes now is worse than the dial aol days. Anyone with the internet is a hc influencer. So define hardcore before going forward with anything else.
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🔥 PALANTARD 🔥 (@cidman00) reported@thinkReal AOL was the **** back then
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Katy A. (@KatyLMA) reported@Ken_FiveSolas I got 19. I never had an aol address. LOL
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savannah (@phillyvalIey) reportedthe prob i have is i can’t actually log into it :(( i used a dang aol email i made specifically for this account and I of course don’t know the log in and ran out of tries for the next 12 hours @AOL help a girl relive her early teens
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Andrew Waller (@01Waller) reported@Matt_Pinner All but 2. No AOL address and no waterbed (I’ve sat on one but I’ve never slept on one). I still use some of the others e.g. I used a paper map last week,
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sprint (@sspriint) reportedAOL and Time Warner merged in a $165,000,000,000 deal, and two years later the company wrote off $99,000,000,000 in a single year. The announcement came in January 2000, weeks before the dot-com peak. An internet company buying one of the largest media empires on earth. AOL was the smaller business by revenue and profit. It had the stock price, which was the currency that made the deal possible. Steve Case and Gerald Levin stood on stage and called it the future. Dial-up subscribers plus film studios, cable systems, magazines, and music. Then the bubble burst. AOL's advertising revenue collapsed, and the subscriber business began dying as broadband arrived and nobody needed dial-up anymore. The cultures never combined. Time Warner executives resented being bought with inflated paper, and the AOL side found the media business slow. In 2002 the company reported a loss of about $99,000,000,000, the largest annual loss in American corporate history. Almost all of it was writing down the value of AOL itself. The AOL name came off the company in 2003. The two businesses split apart entirely in 2009. Levin later apologized publicly and called himself responsible. The biggest deal ever signed destroyed more value than most companies ever create.
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Jayne (@Jgrady025) reported@Matt_Pinner 19. I never used AOL.
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𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖔𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖘 & 𝓜𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓰 (VTuber) (@__Mister_D__) reported@YomiQuinnley I have 14, I just never got an AOL address because I grew up poor. I didn't get Internet until 2005.
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NASDAQ Gallery (@TP_TIGER98) reportedBending Spoons($BSP ) is best understood as a software holding company built around recurring cash flow. Its playbook is direct: buy a digital business with proven demand, rebuild the product and cost base, improve pricing and conversion, then reinvest the cash into another acquisition. Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Remini and AOL are assets inside that operating system. The numbers make the model clear. In Q1 2026, subscriptions produced 84% of revenue, advertising 12%, and other sources 4%. Revenue grew from $387 million in 2023 to $1.31 billion in 2025, with acquisitions driving much of the increase. The figure I keep coming back to is customer tenure. In Q1 2026, 48% of subscription revenue came from customers with at least five years of tenure, including 28% from customers with at least ten. That gives Bending Spoons time to make deep changes to products it plans to own for the long run. The investment case comes down to execution: buy well, improve the asset, and compound the cash. The risk follows the same logic. Acquisition-led growth only compounds if management keeps choosing the right targets and improves them without weakening products that users already depend on.
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🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) reported🇬🇷 Three people were killed when a private helicopter crashed on the Greek island of Sifnos (Cyclades) shortly after 6 p.m. local time on Monday, Aug. 17, per the Greek fire brigade (via Reuters). The aircraft went down in the Tholos neighborhood near homes and burst into flames, sparking a brush fire that crews brought under control. The dead are the pilot and two passengers. According to unconfirmed local reports, those on board were a newly-married British couple and the Greek pilot; the helicopter had reportedly taken off from a helipad in eastern Attica bound for Sifnos and crashed shortly after departure. Authorities have not officially confirmed the victims' identities. One correction: early reports of six dead were incorrect — the confirmed toll is three. The cause is unknown and under investigation by Greek aviation authorities. It has not been established that a loss of control caused the crash, so early explanations should be treated with caution. Developing. Sources: Reuters, Jerusalem Post, KeepTalkingGreece, AOL/Reach