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

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  Nick Albright 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@albrnick) reported 35 seconds ago

  Stay the F away from @watchcommnet ! Use starlink, aol, dialup, *anything* else! When I get ahold of customer support they are wonderful, but getting to is near impossible. 40 minute wait times. Hung up after holding for 1 hour 27 minutes. Get a voicemail, etc.. #hell

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  Exencial Research Partners (@exencial_RP) reported 1 minute ago

  OpenAI Is Forecasting Something That Has Never Happened in 75 Years of Market History Morgan Stanley's Mauboussin studied every 5-year sales growth run for US public companies since 1950. Nearly 19,300 firm-period observations. Fastest ever: AOL at 103% CAGR, and even that was a merger artifact with Time Warner. OpenAI's projection: $13.1bn (2025) → $284bn (2030). An 85% CAGR from a base no company that size has ever compounded from. The earlier $184bn-by-2029 forecast implied 118%. The mean 5-year nominal CAGR in the data: 6.9%, with 11.1% standard deviation. OpenAI's forecast sits 9 to 10 standard deviations out. Mauboussin's caveat is fair, base rates are dynamic and the past doesn't make it impossible. But it would be the single greatest growth achievement in the history of public markets. Price it accordingly. Base Rates of Nominal and Real 5-Year Sales Growth for Firms With $2-5 Billion in Sales, 1950-2025

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  Avi 🇨🇦🇮🇱/(ESC) (@Wpg_Jets79584) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ToxicWorrier @llandoniffirg 19. Never had aol

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  Dino Darling (@DinoTheDarling) reported 3 minutes ago

  @OldSchool88069 I never understood the Vinny Ru hate. He didn't kill wcw, the AOL tine warner merger did.

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  Brad 🛹 (@BradleySmith93) reported 5 minutes ago

  @RetroTechDreams Would play the **** out turret defense custom games in this with AOL dial up internet. Then I'd end up disconnecting from games due to my sisters unplugging the internet to use the phoneline to call up boys. Good times.

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  Richard Cranium (@RichardC75736) reported 9 minutes ago

  @matthewdmarsden So you are willing to sacrifice all the kids with bad parents? Sounds pretty messed up to me and certainly not very Christian! I applaud you, I tried to do it and my wife divorced me and then the daughter was ***** after meeting a guy from AOL IRL. But I was the bad guy.

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  SID | Degen (@SidDegen) reported 12 minutes ago

  i don't buy the "ai search replaces Google" thesis. the data says the opposite is happening. Cloudflare Radar, may 2026: every ai chatbot — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity — sends 0.29% of global search referrals. Google sends 87.63%. 301-to-1. Anthropic's ClaudeBot crawls 11,122 pages for every human visit it returns vs Google's 5:1. Alphabet Q1 2026 filing: Google search revenue $60.4B, +19% yoy, up from +17% in Q4. ai overviews hit 2.5B monthly users; ai mode crossed 1B. alphabet says ai overviews monetize at rates "similar to traditional search" (june 2026 investor presentation). the kill-google thesis is showing up as negative signal in the actual p&l. Perplexity — the consensus poster child — killed its entire ad business in feb (Financial Times, The Verge). ads generated $20K against $34M revenue. exec quote: "a user would just start doubting everything." a company that can't make advertising work cannot disrupt a $60B/quarter advertising business. the consensus pusher worth countering specifically — @sarahdingwang at a16z, who led Exa's $250M Series C at $2.2B in may. her line: "agents will search the web more than humans this year. soon orders of magnitudes more." historical analog — Netscape 1994-98. the next platform that would reduce windows to "a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 80% share, record ipo. microsoft bundled IE for free. netscape sold to AOL for scrap. the company that captured the value was the one everyone thought netscape would displace — Google, founded 1998 — the services layer above the commodity. counter-position: ai search isn't replacing Google. Google is becoming ai search. standalone players are fighting netscape's war while the incumbent absorbs the tech into a surface 2.5B people already use. investor read: Exa at $2.2B and Perplexity at $22B are priced for a market-share takeover the referral data says isn't happening. the smarter bet is the layer that monetizes the ai-overview expansion Google is driving.

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  Stargate Ops: Command (@stargateops) reported 12 minutes ago

  Along with forum raiding, they organize on Discord, Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram. All of your "influencers" and heroes? This is where they get their marching orders. They even used Yahoo and AOL messenger chat groups back in the day. The shill fears the Anon.

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  brdandchocdiet☮️ (@docrozcallahn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @AOL i’ve been a loyal customer of AOL for more years than I care to mention they cannot transfer my email account to my new android phone. The customer support online cannot help me because they can’t verify me online. the customer support help phone number is not working😳😳😳

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  Laurie Hardman (@LaurieLyricalG) reported 17 minutes ago

  @EllieJayWrites You know I might be over there more if it was formatted exactly like it is here. I still use AOL email, I don't like change LOL.. I post my daily videos there, but not much else and I don't hang there