AOL outages and service status in Market Drayton, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Market Drayton, England

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

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  f_marzotto (@f_marzotto) reported 10 minutes ago

  $BSP is a masterpiece. Just not of innovation. Working in Big Tech, you get used to seeing what actual scale and innovation look like. So watching Italy crown Bending Spoons as its great tech champion - a team that buys beloved, declining brands like AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup to "revive" them - has been fascinating. Their $18 billion IPO is largely deserved: they are exceptional operators. They make neglected software fast and profitable. The machine works. But there are two things you can do to a fading product. You can make it modern and profitable again - or you can make it win again, attracting new people who genuinely love it. Bending Spoons does the first brilliantly. The second, almost never. Their own SEC prospectus reveals the trick. Organic growth was 13% last year, and just 6% last quarter. Net revenue retention is 94%, meaning each cohort of users is worth less a year later, even after aggressive price hikes. This isn't a base being won back; it's a base leaking quietly, taxed harder on the way out. This is exactly why comparing them to Big Tech is so revealing. Picture $META putting WhatsApp or Instagram behind a paywall tomorrow. There would be a global uproar. Meta has the most locked-in audience on Earth, yet they refuse to charge them. Why? Because they are still chasing growth. Bending Spoons charges its captive audiences precisely because it has no growth left to protect. They execute the exact playbook that would make Meta a supervillain, but on smaller apps with weaker exits - and we call it genius. The reviled villain treats its users better than the celebrated innovator. A true maker earns its price by building something genuinely better; you pay because you want to stay. Bending Spoons didn't build these products; braver people did. They buy them when they are loved and hard to quit, and turn them into extraction machines. They are professional converters of makers into takers. Charging people because they want to stay makes everyone richer. Charging them because they can't leave just moves money from users to shareholders. One is a gain for the world. The other is a transfer. And every switch they flip is one more bill on people already drowning in subscriptions, asked to pay again for what they once had free. Of course, the business works. Rent extraction is the safest business on earth: low risk, fast payback, nothing to invent. But compare that to actual innovation. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, he took real risk on things that didn't exist yet: Tesla forced open the EV industry, SpaceX made rockets reusable, and each time the rest of the world had to follow. He earned his success by growing the pie; Bending Spoons pours the same ingenuity into nag screens and cancellation mazes, carving up a pie someone else baked. Let's not call a toll booth a cathedral. Celebrate rent-collection as innovation, and we teach our best makers to optimize the past instead of building the future.

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  Styles (@LexD934949) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AnaAnsan3 Nintendo and Sony would have been stuck in the late 1990s with AOL service setups if it weren’t for PC gaming and the original Xbox (the original Steam Machine).

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  Pit Schultz (@pitsch) reported 12 minutes ago

  If you follow the debates in France, Bavaria and the UK, institutions that still care about sovereignty in police and intelligence are struggling to justify their Palantir contracts. Karp applies the same rhetorical operation he once ran on the Frankfurt School to dismiss open-weight bare-metal local AI: autonomous, private, sovereign exactly at the nation-state layer - where Palantir instead builds a global empire on critical data, pushing proprietary “ontology” across military, police and surveillance with zero open source, weaponizing the arguments of the systemic opponent as travesty. The US hyperscaler bubble doubles down on proprietary monoliths defending their shrinking moats, while technology moves the other way. They all want to become the SGI, Sun, Digital or AOL of the AI age.

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  Casey B. Head (@CaseyBHead) reported 16 minutes ago

  @simonsarris Scrounging AOL disks out of the garbage for 120 more minutes of free Internet.

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  Boni Blackstone (@BoniLBlackstone) reported 17 minutes ago

  @90sWWE 1997 "The year of the goose" Grey Goose for Tammy unfortunately. She's rotting in an Ocalla Florida prison for DUI vehicular homicide. 7th offense. No liscence, no insurance, boyfriends car. Sad story in this biz. Most DL'd AOL star to orange jumpsuit. -**** poster

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  Ian Miles Chunk (@stillgh4y) reported 19 minutes ago

  @MorePerfectUS This dysgenic mouth-breather just says things for controversy. Remember he was the guy who became rich by taking Netscape IPO before it could even turn a profit and then sold it to AOL. His entire existence is the prototype for the Silicon Valley hype bro (i.e. Theranos, WeWork, etc.. would never be possible without his prototype) and if you don't hate him then you don't know him enough

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  Not Enoch Burke (@Burkinator9000) reported 22 minutes ago

  SAW ON AOL TODAY,,,, US SOCCER WON DOWN A MAN!! I DEMAND A RED CARD SO I CAN REFUSE TO LEAVE THE PITCH!! KICKBALL IS WOKE LAWN ABUSE WHICH PROVES MY TOTAL VICTORY!! -Enoch #DialUpTruth #RedCardTheJudge #NoSurrender

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  Laserkid is now an uncle! (@laserkidprime) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Tsukento Oh man I never did use the AOL site as I was a filthy Earthlinker, but I was in the Loudhouse as early as 1995 (under the same username hilariously I've kept it the same going back to 1994 and WBS Chat, also long gone)

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  Terry Wilson (@HookOrNeedles) reported 24 minutes ago

  @lady_valor_07 @Yahoo @MSN AOL and dail up - refuse to call it the good old days but it was something. You knew that it was the beginning, but you didn't know of what. Could never have foreseen the internet in 2026 that is for sure.

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  Stock Analysis (@stock_analysisx) reported 28 minutes ago

  Market Bullets 📊 Bending Spoons jumps in IPO: $BSP (Bending Spoons), which owns AOL, Vimeo, and others, surged 40% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $1.68 billion. Meta's new cloud business: $META (Meta Platforms Inc.) plans to sell excess AI computing capacity through a new cloud business, creating a potential revenue stream to offset heavy infrastructure spending and compete with major cloud providers. OpenAI pitches federal stake: OpenAI has reportedly proposed providing the U.S. government a 5% equity stake and urged other AI firms to do the same. SpaceX unveils AI device prototype: $SPCX (SpaceX Corp.) allegedly showed investors a slim handset-like AI device prototype that integrates xAI tech and runs a proprietary operating system. The project is early-stage, though Elon Musk denied the report. Jobs growth misses expectations: The U.S. economy gained 57K jobs in June, missing estimates of 115K — and down from 129K jobs in May. April and May totals were revised down by 74K. Still, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.3% to 4.2%.