AOL outages and service status in Smethwick, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick, 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 Smethwick, England

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

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  Loreta (@lottynew) reported 14 seconds ago from Beoley, England

  @GeorgeTranos @AOL Ditto I have exactly the same@problem !!

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  Baz Forrest (@BazForrest) reported 9 minutes ago from Bromsgrove, England

  @AOL need help with accessing my email account

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  tracey tutty (@champagnetrace) reported 17 minutes ago 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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  Samuel Hughes (@samuelbhughes) reported 27 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Serious judgement to anyone who has ntlworld email addresses. AOL just as bad.

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  mike (@mikewhitehurs12) reported 28 minutes ago from Wolverhampton, England

  All 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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  Ash❗️ (@A_J_92) reported 42 minutes ago 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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  Ayr of the Four Winds (@Ayrwalker) reported 47 minutes ago 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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  Eleanor leonard (@eleanorleonards) reported 49 minutes ago 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

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  PanoramaDan (@PanoramaDanB) reported 4 minutes ago

  @DrElectronX @RandyWKirk1 Major tech companies pre-dot-com bubble peak (late 1990s–2000): Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Oracle, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell, HP, AOL, Yahoo, Apple, Amazon, eBay. If you wind the clock forward 10 yrs everyone of these except AOL lives on its own or was merged. My point is that most of the leaders in the tech industry would survive a bubble bust if it happened tomorrow. I saw the bubble coming and moved to cash befire the dot. com bubble, but I was scared out of the market for 10 years and missed the rapid rebound of the tech leaders. Timing a bubble is a fools game. Buy quality companies whose competitive advantages will endure in down times.

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  Lilith Hunter (@hunter_lilith) reported 4 minutes ago

  @JustJJSC they realized CONTENT is king back when AOL bought Time Waner. Some were slow to adapt, but Comcast bought NBC/Universal, Disney bought ABC, CBS bought Paramount/or vice versa, and a few new were created, netflix, az prime, to make content. The said FU. added commercials.

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  The Genie (@The_Genie35) reported 7 minutes ago

  Everyone’s talking about AOL and Yahoo but they still never heard of Google. Memecoin Markets 2026

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  Ara G. Gelenian (@BPVideoGroup) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 18. 19 if the "film camera" is a still camera not a motion picture camera. Never had an AOL address or waterbed.

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  kimmy the koosh (VGen is Open!!) (@kimmykoosh_art) reported 12 minutes ago

  16. Never got cursive classes. Aol? Whodat? Yahoo or msn. Record player was expensive, rich people ****. (Same right now as well) No one near me had any checkbook to use.

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  Richard Gallagher (@RichardRicoba) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Ken_FiveSolas 18, never used AOL email and never slept on a waterbed

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  Diamonds Tzu (@BigSBrain) reported 17 minutes ago

  @petty_marshall Chatting on AOL/Yahoo in the early 2000s was funny, cause my closer was "Oh yeah, I'm 6'3". It never scared chicks away lol

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  Paul Templeton (@Paul__Templeton) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Janine_1801 LoL 19 for me, never had AOL

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  Michael Dunphy (@mikld1260) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 17 never used a Fax machine or a floppy disk or an AOL address. The others I used on a regular basis

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  PPE (@planert41) reported 26 minutes ago

  The internet enabled "connectivity". All these isolated pockets of information and communities and people always existed before, but being able to connect them together with the internet was what created the huge marginal value. I think the gains falls into 3 general buckets: 1) Connecting/Aggregating supply and demand. People have way more choices now from both supply and demand side - Amazon, Facebook (for human interests/social communities) 2) Efficiency gains from better coordination - Amazon 2 Day Delivery. 3) Frictionless instant distribution - Netflix streaming movies into your home Everyone has been talking about who extracts the most value from the AI stack, and if you look at the internet it's undoubtedly the applications that did. The rest of the stack essentially became commoditized. So let's get back to AI. In the same vein, i think AI enables "intelligence". Before this if you wanted to build a website, you had to hire someone who had the "intelligence" or gain the "intelligence" yourself to build it. Now you just ask AI and it does it for you. Intelligence/Execution is now cheap. Everyone has an intelligent PHD who knows a little of everything working for them on their computer now. OpenAI/Anthropic doesn't feel too different than say AOL back in the day when it was the only way consumers could access the internet. Eventually people had alternatives and it went away although for the internet providers, AOL didn't necessarily provide "better" internet than its competitors but the frontier AI models could potentially. AI Chips/Hardware now don't seem too dissimilar to how modems/routers/optic cables were for the internet. It'll still be short squeezed in the short term, but we'll eventually get more alternatives and supply. Energy/infrastructure - Eventually ppl will build data centers in the middle of nowhere with energy supply and it'll be fine. There will be alternatives. So i think eventually all the value will accrue to the application layer as everything else gets commoditized? But what would those applications look like? One thought experiment would be to consider which companies/products couldn't exist without the internet. Everyone in FAANG could be considered here, so maybe the trick is to find companies that couldn't exist without AI? Walmart would still exist without the internet, but not Amazon. Amazon figured out how to give itself an unfair advantage with the internet. Google obviously couldn't exist without the internet. So what are the similar parallels for AI? Maybe something like Harvey? What could i do with AI that i couldn't before (besides coding?). Most things still just feel like marginal efficiency gains (besides coding), instead of completely newly unlocked capabilities. I could imagine like a personal AI health assistant that will give you the vitamins or cook personalized meals (via contractor) you need everyday based on your data. Or maybe like an AI home system that helps you schedule for maintenance/repairs without you needing to think about it? Perhaps the internet solved the distribution problem, so the bet should just be on companies who already have a lock on distribution like $CRM and bet that they'll figure AI out. But perhaps we still need more time for AI to play out to identify these potential long term winners. We still don't really know what we can actually do with AI yet