AOL outages and service status in Alexandria, Minnesota

Problems in the last 24 hours in Alexandria, Minnesota

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Cathleen O'Connor (@CathleenOConnor) reported 6 minutes ago

  @lhallwriter 19 - never had an AOL address

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  Nixie North ❄️🍁😈 (@Nixie_North) reported 10 minutes ago

  Goddammit it..... 20.... I had to fax away financial paperwork for schooling. I used a rotary phone at my grandmother's. When I was a kid, I've used it encyclopedia, because I was always interested in facts in looking stuff up. I used floppy disks Galore back in the day. I had an AOL email. I still have my records and my record player. I loved dial up internet, but it was so slow. Cool but slow i've used an old school film camera and then even in old school picture camera with film. Yes, there's a difference once for movies. One's for pitchers i've used a phone booth when I didn't have a cellphone back in the day i had to write cursive in grade three i had to use checks to pay for some stuff.And to get direct deposits set up with work i used a typewriter in typing class in school i use a dictionary sometimes cause I can't spell worth a darn i had a bunch of vhs, tapes and v c r's when I was a kid i used a paper map because where we were going, we didn't have gps, and then I even printed out the map quest directions my grandfather used to have a water bed in his guest room i've sent.I don't know how many postcards i had a walkman and a discman and yes they're different and I even used the phone book when I was younger to orderbTakeout now if you don't mind, i'm gonna go yell at some kids that are crossing my lawn lol jk but seriously I feel so old now

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  David Stacy (@DaveLStacy) reported 14 minutes ago

  Stripe buying OR for $7B is either AOL/TimeWarner level stupid, or FBMeta buying Instagram level brilliance. No in between.

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  Banana In The Tailpipe (@TailpipeBanana) reported 17 minutes ago

  @bumbadum14 I know people who have tumbled down this same rabbit hole. Being isolated in a cabin in Maine with nobody to tell you you're ******* nuts. He's basically a 2005 era boomer sending FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD: AOL emails of a giant shark eating a scuba diver hanging from a helicopter. Like when he states he knows "FOR. A. FACT." that American missiles were sold by Ukraine to Mexican cartels - and the "FACT" is just some random picture of a spent AT4.

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  BAT-SALEH (@BATVRABEL) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Quadripolar_B I was in one in the AOL days. I dominated that **** until they asked me to run it. I still have some of the shows I wrote. I can't believe I ever had the imagination and attention span for that. I gave myself carpal tunnel.

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  Nick Greig (@NickG_80) reported 19 minutes ago

  @rovabtw Used to be standard for me. AOL chat back in the day (son's mother) or Facebook. Never a dating site.

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  Sarah '$EZ' Forde (@Kittyclysm87) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19, never had a AOL account.

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  🇺🇸 Juan Pueblo 🇺🇸 (@Yorgish49) reported 21 minutes ago

  @krassenstein You manipulated this article from AOL and left the part about being afraid to be discharged dishonestly. They don’t lack a damn thing. The issue is being away from their families, they knew it going in and two latino guys were broken up ‘cause they have been away a long time.

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  The Edge Guy (@plaz28) reported 22 minutes ago

  230 people. One inflatable boat. New record. The dinghy was already carrying 50 people when it stopped to pick up more — around 30 fell into the water during the scramble to board. French rescuers watched it leave “buckling under the swell.” It broke the previous record of 165, set just last month. Here’s the number nobody’s posting today: total Channel crossings in 2026 are down 43% from this time last year. Fewer boats. More people crammed into each one. The smugglers didn’t lose the trade — they just made the math worse per boat. (ITV / AOL, Aug 10, 2026)

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  Stereogum (@stereogum) reported 24 minutes ago

  After 71 years, the longstanding mail-order media club Columbia House is shutting down on Sept. 15. Columbia House got its start in 1955 as the Columbia Record Club, a direct-mail marketing program by CBS/Columbia Records. New members were promised a free record for joining, and customers could bypass a trip to the record store by ordering albums to be shipped to them at home. It was such a wildly popular venture that by 1963, it represented 10% of the music retail market. As the club spawned imitators, Columbia set itself apart by licensing titles from other labels, giving members a larger catalog to choose from. In the early 1970s, the name of the club was changed to Columbia House. With its introductory offer of “8 CDs for a penny,” the service remained a powerhouse throughout the late 20th century, peaking at 16 million members in 1996, the same year the Columbia House website went live. In 1991, Sony and Time Warner formed a 50/50 joint venture combining Columbia House with Time Life's home video and music clubs. As the market share for mail-order music clubs declined due to the rise of online and big-box retailers, Sony and AOL Time Warner sold 85% of Columbia House to the Blackstone Group. There were widespread reports of a planned merger with CDNow or Blockbuster Video, but neither came to pass. In 2005, Columbia House was sold to its competitor BMG, and then to JMCK Corp. It rebranded as Direct Brands, shutting down music sales and continuing as a DVD and Blu-ray Disc club. Plans to launch a vinyl record club with Columbia House branding did not materialize.