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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  francvs (@francvs) reported 23 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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  Mark Bjorge (@MarkBjorge) reported 41 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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  Kodi Seaton (@StepToTheMic) reported 51 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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  Heather Perram Frank BA (@MissInformation) reported 51 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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  Ward Three DC (@wardthreedc) reported 53 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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  Jimbo (@Jimbo3DC) reported 58 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.

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  TTT Nguyen (@AgarWoodCapital) reported 59 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

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Bernd (@BwieAktien) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Forbes Peak New Economy: AOL bought Time Warner in 2000/01 in an all-share deal, with a purchase price of about $147bn on the books, often announced as ~$165bn. In 2002, AOL Time Warner then took a $54.2bn goodwill impairment, followed by another $45.5bn write-down. Now AOL is back in the public-market story as part of Bending Spoons’ >$18bn IPO! $BSP

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  deputydog357 (@deputydogblitzn) reported 3 minutes ago

  @FOX13News Technology and computers have always led to fraud, the dark web has been around since the AOL days, unfortunately the govt keeps adding more technology to everything for the surveillance state, they will never stop it

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  Average Joe (@average_joe_x2) reported 3 minutes ago

  @celestineia Met a bunch of people in one of my AOL chat group years ago, never again

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  Jorge Ortiz (@JorgeO) reported 5 minutes ago

  @goingforbrooke but when everyone in the US had aim (bc aol was so popular as an isp), everyone in europe + latam had msn messenger (because hotmail was so popular as free email with free storage, when your isp email had no storage and would change if you changed isps). so also network effects.

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  Bexxs (@BexxsCity) reported 7 minutes ago

  @blakeir The only policing was asking them to stay off the phone so I could dial on to AOL or MSN messenger to chat with my high school friends and argue why I had been bumped down in their top five lol.

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  WRIGHT3OUS (@WRIGHT3OUS___) reported 10 minutes ago

  @justavictim1182 @JPDenaliRocket The worst thing to happen to wrestling was aol. Steady decline

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  Shraddha Bharuka (@BharukaShraddha) reported 10 minutes ago

  20. Connected Account Vulnerability The Situation: Back in 2010, you finally made the jump from Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL to Gmail. To make the transition easier, you linked your old legacy account to automatically forward everything into your new Gmail inbox. You haven't logged into that Yahoo account in a decade. The Mechanics: Legacy email platforms like Yahoo and AOL have notoriously outdated, porous spam filters compared to Google's billion-dollar machine learning infrastructure. By using POP3 or IMAP to pull that mail into Gmail, you are essentially bypassing Google's frontline defenses and piping raw, unfiltered internet sewage straight into your pristine Gmail ecosystem. The Fix: It is time to sever the cord. Go to Gmail Settings > Accounts and Import. Look under "Check mail from other accounts." Delete the legacy connections. If you absolutely still need access to that ancient Hotmail account for banking resets, log into it directly, aggressively clean it, and set up incredibly strict server-side rules there before allowing it anywhere near your primary hub.

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  Pit Schultz (@pitsch) reported 11 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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  matt stevens (@mattst73) reported 14 minutes ago

  @desthia2 This is the bottleneck problem AI is experiencing right now. It is like when AOL charge by the minute, then someone said unlimited internet. We need quantum computing to have a break though or enough data centers to handle. Selling compute capacity to other AI companies has screwed their own customers.

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  Wakko Warner (@tjztyger) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19 points as well. Never been an "@aol".