AOL outages and service status in Ottumwa, Iowa

Problems in the last 24 hours in Ottumwa, Iowa

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Ottumwa, Iowa 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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  Levity (@LevityODonnell) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ThreeUK Sort your **** mobile broadband network out in South Manchester. I had better service with my AOL rom disc and dial up in Y2K.

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  Wendy (@Wendyfrigeri) reported 4 minutes ago

  @lady_valor_07 @Yahoo @MSN I screeched when Prodigy left the USA as at that point we had to get AOL accounts, which were garbage & only got worse.

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  Lisa Barlow Stan Account (@ucantcallmeVal) reported 12 minutes ago

  It’s true what they say that you care so much less ab **** in your 30’s than your 20’s bc 20’s Valerie would have bullied that pathetic little account into shutting down through pure shame until the only internet they felt safe using was a ******* AOL cd rom from 1996.

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  Sandy Kory (@sandykory) reported 13 minutes ago

  I haven’t been buying the "SaaSpocalypse," but Q1’s nosediving SaaS valuations gave me pause. After a week in SF last month sampling the AI zeitgeist, I have a better feel for where the software sector is heading. It’s the SaaS-to-inference transition, and it’s good. My long-standing view has been that AI is a net positive for the software industry. It radically raises the ceiling for what software products can do. It should dramatically expand the market opportunity for software, just like the on-prem-to-cloud transition did back in the day. Yet many have been freaking out. After all, haven’t SaaS switching costs come down dramatically in SaaS, threatening one of the pillars of the business model? Yes, there’s no doubt that the “cement around the ankles” of legacy SaaS has weakened. At the same time, most legacy SaaS companies have barely scratched the surface of AI innovation while maintaining their historically high retention. This is how it played out in the last major transition: on-prem-to-cloud. Many legacy players (pathetically) ignored cloud innovation for 5-10 years (or longer) and still kept their customers. It turns out that technology is stickier than most in the tech industry believe. Take a look at Bending Spoons, which IPO’d off the back of buying crappy legacy products and jacking up prices because users didn’t want to give up their AOL email or Evernote notes. Tech industry people are not like this. They tend to be part of the very small minority of early adopters. Most people aren’t like this. Neither are most organizations. Legacy software isn’t going to disappear. But if pre-AI software companies don’t embrace AI innovation, their customers will be much less forgiving than on-prem customers 10-20 years ago. AI capabilities are too potent and obviously beneficial. What does embracing AI innovation look like? It means layering intelligent actions into all software. Historically, great software has helped users follow the right workflow. Now, great software must do the workflow by triggering agents to take actions. In other words, inference. The great news for everyone is that this opens the door to consumption-based pricing models that can scale exponentially. For legacy players and startups alike, delivering amazing AI-powered, agentic features is the way to get on the vertical-growth train. Remarkably, the door is still open for legacy players. Intercom’s 3.6b exit to Salesforce is a great example. Of course, new pricing models mean new margin structures. Just as SaaS had lower gross margins than legacy on-prem, expect consumption-priced inference to have lower gross margins. This is OK! We’ve already seen massive wins for inference-selling startups with negative gross margins, like Cursor. Legacy SaaS companies need to find religion on this. Dropping margins is never easy. Lock up the finance team if you have to. The priority is delivering AI-powered value for customers. Everything else is just details.

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  Moe of No Words Barred Podcast (@MoeBeKnowin) reported 18 minutes ago

  I’ll never forget AOL 4.0 that supported “broadband” internet. That version was a changer.

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  grams de champ (@gramsdidit) reported 19 minutes ago

  @JeffJSays in 1997 i had our old clunker computer hidden in my closet with extension cord under the carpet around the bed to power so i could chat with friends on AOL dialup and play roller coaster tycoon after folks went to bed, never got caught. these kids got it easy

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  HitNail (@Hitnail) reported 22 minutes ago

  @AOL has me locked out of my old emails. I have the email and passwords. Each is the other's recovery email and both want me to verify with a code sent to the other. An hour on hold and AOL tells me they won't help unless I pay them. Then they hung up on me.

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  méli mélo (@PulsePersephone) reported 23 minutes ago

  In like 1997 an adult man found my AOL profile and emailed me just to tell me that I seemed very stupid and and that all my interests were stupid and I emailed him back that I was sorry but that I was 14 and that might have something to do with it.

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  🌺Patience Parker🌺 (@sweeticetv) reported 24 minutes ago

  @GoatR2_ I’m down let’s bring our AOL screen names too even though that don’t exist anymore more 😭

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  Jacob Navok (@JNavok) reported 24 minutes ago

  1.) Buy company 2.) Leadership, strategy and priorities change based on market changes because market is not static 3.) Have bad takes about this written on twitter WB went from independent studio to Time Warner to AOL Time Warner to ATT to Discovery to the Ellisons. These things happen in business because the market changes.