AOL outages and service status in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. 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 Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Washington, D.C. and nearby locations:

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  Mark Bjorge (@MarkBjorge) reported 25 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @ebooksyearn Even their status-title “network” is anachronistic in the modern telecom world. They’re like AOL back when it was a closed ecosystem.

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  Ward Three DC (@wardthreedc) reported 26 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @jstrandt Got to film their 5 millionth sign up party at KaloramaStudios in Adams Morgan and they never paid me! I went on Aol because my dad was CompuServe and I didn’t wanna be old LOL

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  Kodi Seaton (@StepToTheMic) reported 30 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  Some of you have never spent a summer messaging a complete stranger on dial-up AOL Instant Messenger and it shows. 😫 #LoveIsBlindNetflix #loveisblind

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  TTT Nguyen (@AgarWoodCapital) reported 33 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  There can be no risk-free opportunity in sports, business or life. Failure is catastrophic bc of a lack of preparedness. Sears, DC redskins, Blackberry, AOL, & NYC knicks were at the top of their game, but they failed because they were afraid to fail. #failureispartofsuccess

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  Heather Perram Frank BA (@MissInformation) reported 39 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @annasproul I was one of a handful of producers in the Dulles, VA AOL newsroom on 9/11. The campus was evacuated after a plane that departed from the adjacent airport slammed into the Pentagon. I’ll never forgot having to sit on my hands because they were shaking so much I couldn’t type.

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  francvs (@francvs) reported 40 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @AOL Why have I been seeing “We’re having trouble connecting with our servers. Please try again later,” for about a day now?

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  Jimbo (@Jimbo3DC) reported 50 minutes ago from Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

  @woolfhound That was precisely my experience with NYT, and it reminded me if when I had similar experiences trying to cancel my AOL or Bally's membership. Tacky and desperate.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Denard Jones (@DJones205) reported 2 minutes ago

  @TampaBae8 My yahoo jawn is still active. Even though I don’t use it daily. Never had an AOL

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  William Roddy (@WilliamRoddy14) reported 2 minutes ago

  Loudon County, VA has the highest median family income in the country. It is not the richest--Elon doesn't live there. Loudon was the headquarters of the internet 30 years ago. AOL had their HQ there. The data centers were built before residents knew about the problems.

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  PanoramaDan (@PanoramaDanB) reported 8 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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  the grundle bundler (@thebagofregret) reported 9 minutes ago

  what do you think is the earliest birth year of someone who has shared this exact problem dating back to AOL ****

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  sprint (@sspriint) reported 11 minutes ago

  In June 2000 a room of shareholders raised their hands and approved the worst deal in corporate history. The price tag was $120,000,000,000. When the deal was announced five months earlier it was worth about $165,000,000,000. Nobody stopped the vote. The currency was melting while they counted the hands, and the vote went through anyway. AOL was the buyer. A dial-up company with 23,000,000 subscribers paying monthly for modem access. Time Warner was the target. Cable systems, film studios, magazines, record labels, actual assets producing actual cash. The internet company bought the media empire with stock. Paper bought property. Steve Case knew what his paper was worth. Gerald Levin took it anyway. Watch the men on the steps afterwards. Nobody is arguing. Nobody in that footage looks like they just lost anything. Two years later the combined company wrote down about $99,000,000,000 in a single year. That number is larger than the annual output of most countries. By 2009 the two halves were separated again, and the pieces were worth a fraction of what they carried in. Every analyst covering the deal called it visionary. The vote took minutes. The unwind took nine years.

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  Paul Templeton (@Paul__Templeton) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Janine_1801 LoL 19 for me, never had AOL

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  frakmaga2025 (@FrakMAGA2022) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Futurenvesting Well, you can be sure that any company they buy is struggling for cash or can't grow, so they buy them and having a big layoff. Some AI info Financial Impact of the Strategy Skyrocketing Revenue: Consolidated revenue surged from $387 million in 2023 to $1.31 billion in 2025, and hit $704 million for Q2 2026 alone. High Operating Margins: Their operating and adjusted profitability have expanded rapidly, with adjusted operating margins reaching 54% and operating profits more than doubling to $278 million in 2025. The Debt Trade-off: While the individual apps become profitable, the parent company funds its aggressive shopping spree (acquiring giants like Vimeo, AOL, Eventbrite, and Airtable) through heavy borrowing. This leaves them carrying billions in debt, meaning a significant chunk of their operating income goes toward servicing interest payments. The stock went public on July 1, 2026, pricing its initial public offering at $29.00 per share. It surged 40% on its first day and currently trades around $39.31. The Good: Revenue skyrocketed 126% year-over-year to $704.2 million, and adjusted earnings per share hit $0.46 (beating the $0.27 consensus). The Bad: The company’s full-year 2026 revenue guidance came in at $2.78 billion to $2.82 billion, missing Wall Street’s $2.90 billion projection. The Growth Reality: While headline growth looks massive, organic revenue growth was just 3%. Almost all of the revenue expansion is coming from bought growth—specifically the rapid fire-sale absorptions of companies like AOL, Eventbrite, and Vimeo.

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  Joseph Rider #Resistance (@JosephRider13) reported 19 minutes ago

  19 never used AOL was a yahoo man from day one

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  Pete Koenig, Sr. (@petekoenig84) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh I got 18: never had an AOL address or a waterbed but I have used both a carburetor and a manual transmission on the same vehicle.

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  𝕧𝕖𝕕𝕨𝕖𝕕 (@vedwed) reported 21 minutes ago

  @muheediva01 i had aol and netscape emails...what is this yahoo ****?