AOL outages and service status in East Brunswick, New Jersey

Problems in the last 24 hours in East Brunswick, New Jersey

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in East Brunswick, New Jersey 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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  Kathryn Kimball (@KimballKathryn) reported 6 minutes ago

  @miracles7k Never had aol

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  Patrick Joseph (@Patrick28824031) reported 7 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 I got 19. I never used the AOL address

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  p19k (@peteralexbizjak) reported 8 minutes ago

  Bending Spoons is the most interesting acquisition machine in tech right now, and the more you dig into it... The weirder it becomes. They buy aging digital brands that still have users and brand recognition but have lost their edge, think Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Meetup, AOL, Eventbrite, and a pile of others. Then they do the thing almost nobody else has the stomach for: they gut the headcount hard, move operations onto their own centralized platform, raise prices, tighten free tiers, and run the products with a much smaller team of their own people (“Spooners”). The original staff is mostly gone. In some cases the entire original team was shown the door. Imagine... Entire staff gone! Mosaic: 330 people out because only the assets were bought. WeTransfer: 75%. Evernote: from hundreds down to a fraction. Vimeo: most of the workforce, including the video team. The list goes on. They are transparent about it in filings as they call the workforce reductions part of the “transformation.” Does it work financially? At the operating level, yes. Revenue went from $387M in 2023 to $1.31B in 2025, with Q1 2026 already at $601M. Operating income is healthy (around 20-21% margins recently) and adjusted operating margins are even better, climbing toward 50%. GAAP net income is messier because of debt interest and acquisition-related costs, but the core engine is printing cash once the cuts land. They target aggressive IRRs on deals and hold everything forever with no exit plan. Compare that to the usual suspects. Constellation Software is the cleanest public parallel. Same “buy and never sell” philosophy, same focus on capital allocation. But Constellation is decentralized: hundreds of small vertical B2B software companies that mostly run themselves. Sticky, mission-critical products, low churn, funded largely from internal cash flow, modest leverage. Steady compounding over two decades. Bending Spoons is the opposite operating model: hyper-centralized platform, consumer and legacy digital brands (higher churn risk), heavy debt, and much more aggressive restructuring. Higher targeted returns, higher variance. Private equity shops like Thoma Bravo or Vista do the cost-cutting and leverage part. The difference is they buy to sell in a few years. Bending Spoons has no intention of flipping anything. They want the portfolio to compound indefinitely. That permanent-capital mindset is closer to Berkshire than classic PE, even if the day-to-day execution looks more like a ruthless turnaround team with a shared AI-heavy tech stack. The model has clear strengths: speed of integration, willingness to make hard decisions, ability to extract margin from businesses that previous owners treated as lifestyle companies or growth stories. It also has obvious risks; consumer products are less sticky than vertical software, debt service is real, and the long-term durability of heavily optimized legacy brands under continuous price pressure is still being tested. Newer big acquisitions (Vimeo, Eventbrite, AOL) are still in the middle of the transformation. Whether you like the approach or find it cold is secondary. The numbers and the consistency of the playbook are hard to ignore. Bending Spoons is running a specialized version of the software roll-up with more aggression on costs and more centralization than the classic players. It is working so far. The interesting question is how far the model scales before the easy targets dry up or the leverage becomes a problem.

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  Yossi Hasson (@yossihasson) reported 12 minutes ago

  Then on 1 December 1996, AOL went flat rate. $19.95. Unlimited. Average usage went from 7 hours a month to 23. The network collapsed. Customers sued. States opened investigations. The CEO had to publicly ask 8 million people to please use the internet less.

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  larry stickovich (@stickylarry0) reported 14 minutes ago

  @hthieblot Aol chatrooms were the ****

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  Tommy Richards #OvertPsyops (ReMastered) (@tlthe5th) reported 14 minutes ago

  Lisa sent me the AOL email less than a month before she suddenly freaked out on me because I asked for divorce. And she's now lied to the judge AND police trying to get me in serious trouble and caused me an almost insurmountable amount of stress. I JUST wanted some SPACE.

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  Respectful Witness (@pauly1UP) reported 17 minutes ago

  @WrestleFeatures Millions watched Russo’s “100 horrible ideas” and kept coming back. His garbage retained an audience despite AOL TW's funding issues and lack of support. Triple H has TKO, streaming partners, and every advantage 💰, yet even hardcores say the show is DYING. No accountability here

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  Inside Agitator (@AbsolutelyMalc1) reported 20 minutes ago

  @spencerpratt you don't know **** about business, Hollywood, or history. you're comparing apples and oranges. ALL the guilds oppose the merger. WHY IS THAT? mergers mean less projects, less competition, lower wages (and you somehow missed AOL acquiring Time Warner (and WB) in 2000

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  𝙼𝚒𝚔𝚎 🜎 (@OhWellMike) reported 20 minutes ago

  @TrudoJo Since I was about the age of AOL being in its prime, I always figured I could be spied on in any amount of ways, and just accepted it. I can't stop them from fixing their reality, but they'll never do it in my Moment. I say stupid **** so much they probably got a ton. Plus they can fabricate anything they want, literally. I used to be untamed chaos barely in coherence. Now in the manner of two years I went from a gamer trolling on x in his downtime to what I've become for now. And wow that's a lot of self references, Jesus I gotta work on that tbh. 🥲 I'm my own biggest fan

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  Methodical (@objectextinct) reported 21 minutes ago

  @hthieblot apps didn't exist but Gamestorm. AOL was running a $2 an hour game service for a few early MMOs like Starship Troopers battlespace. Even Spades cost $1/hr. Eventually a game service called "Gamestorm" had a bunch of games like multiplayer Warcraft 2, Godzilla Online, Starship Troopers, Aliens, Silent Death, Legends of Kesmai, board games ..etc for $15 a month. So everyone from AOL could play Starship Troopers or Silent Death (Both top down space shooters) unlimited and we would regularly take breaks on the other games. There wasn't anything else like it at the time. Then all the games got deleted and rights issues means they all disappeared forever, rip.