AOL outages and service status in Bothell, Washington

Problems in the last 24 hours in Bothell, Washington

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

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Bothell and nearby locations:

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  birthday wyan || 101 UNTIL BITTERMILK 💖 (@merrymiIk) reported 2 minutes ago from Lynnwood, Washington

  it went to my aol problem solved i keep forgetting that’s in the aol app and not my email app

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  Jason Short (@shortproof) reported 3 minutes ago from Kenmore, Washington

  My father in law (86) tried to send an email for the first time in a while (his words). His AOL email stopped working. I had to explain that it was a service and he probably stopped it a long time ago.

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  Donna Houston (@DonnaHo50584821) reported 19 minutes ago from Grace, Washington

  @joangreeneaz @AOC It must have been a terrible experience for AOL! She knew about this a week before. Did she tell Pelosi? Why not? Pelosi had 6 messages regarding the riot. Did she stop the police from acting? She was the final word. Did she stop the police, guard etc from protecting the capital

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Tony Soprano (@Rick847549) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Bw8496 Yes, America only, and yes I have a VPN because I love talking mad **** on here, like the good old days in the AOL chat rooms.

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  NipNapShite (@NipNapShite) reported 10 minutes ago

  @keithapearson Still very much on aol Might have been their first customer 🤪

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  🌺Patience Parker🌺 (@sweeticetv) reported 14 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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  HitNail (@Hitnail) reported 15 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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  Dr. David Burkus (@davidburkus) reported 16 minutes ago

  WSJ profiled Bending Spoons this week — the Milan company that owns AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo, run by executives in their 30s and staffed by people who are sometimes younger than the software they've been hired to fix. It's actually a story about why so many applicants never make it through the door. Hundreds of thousands apply every year — enough that the rejection rate makes Harvard look like an easy yes — and most of them are optimizing for the wrong thing: credentials, polish, a great answer to "tell me about yourself." Almost anyone can be gracious to the person deciding their future. It's how they treat someone who can't do anything for them that's hard to fake. Last year: roughly 800,000 applications, 286 hires, an acceptance rate near 0.04% — tighter than Citadel's famously selective quant recruiting (0.36%), something like a hundred times harder than Harvard. That selectivity isn't a gut call. A dedicated team inside the company grades every interview against fixed criteria, then tracks how each hire performs months and years later, feeding the results back into the model. CEO Luca Ferrari has said the signal his team weights hardest is exactly this — how a candidate treats the people who have zero power over the outcome: the assistant, the receptionist. Not decency theater. Data: how you act in front of power is a performance; how you act in front of none is closer to the truth. That gap gets coded straight into the model, right alongside the interview scores. I'd bet you've done the reverse of this in the last week without noticing — warm with your boss, a little short with someone who couldn't do anything for you either way. Most companies say they hire for character. Very few test it anywhere the candidate isn't being watched by someone who can help them. Worth trying on your own team — just notice who's kind to the person who can't do anything for them.

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  Alex Prompter (@alex_prompter) reported 18 minutes ago

  You're prompting frontier AI through the same keyboard layout you used for AOL Instant Messenger. The models got 1000x smarter. The interface didn't move an inch. $5.5M says Aina's building the fix. This is the hardware gap I've been watching for someone to close.

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  MichaelJensen1 (@_Kadmos1) reported 22 minutes ago

  @ERCboxoffice For the record, I don't side with various media mergers: If Netflix won in the above proposed merger, I would still oppose it. I tend to not be a fan of these media mergers. AOL TimeWarner should have not been allowed. Microsoft getting Activision Blizzard was a bad idea. SkyDance getting Paramount? Horrible. Disney getting 20CF? Stupid. Now, the 2006 Disney-Pixar merger I do side with. Disney getting Marvel and Lucasfilm? Wish the smaller 20CF got both of those companies.

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  Triple R Productions -podcast host (@TripleRProduct) reported 25 minutes ago

  Hey @AOL You want to charge $70 to get back someone's account that has been hacked. And you're customer service is horrendous as well.

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  Babe Truth (@veryhotsoup) reported 26 minutes ago

  You guys never had AOL and it shows

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 29 minutes ago

  Researchers tracked 344,753 websites over 18 months to map where American attention actually goes online. The answer is email. Gmail alone is 16% of all desktop time. Add Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL, and inboxes eat nearly a quarter of every hour Americans spend at a computer. That's double the combined total of Facebook, X, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and WhatsApp. The legacy numbers are the wild part. Yahoo Mail, at 3.71%, gets more attention than ChatGPT, Reddit, and Netflix combined. AOL Mail, a service most people assume died with dial-up, beats Instagram and Discord combined. Yahoo still has roughly 225 million active mail users, skewing Gen X and Boomer: people who opened an account in 1999 and never saw a reason to leave. Google Search sits at just 2.33%. The front door of the entire internet gets less time than Yahoo's inbox, because search is engineered to end fast. Every second you spend on a results page is a second Google failed. The chart measures desktop, which explains the shape. Your phone is where you play. Your computer is where you work. And the work of being an American in 2026, the bills, the receipts, the school notices, the job applications, still runs through a protocol invented in 1971. Strip away 30 years of apps and the desktop internet is a post office with better graphics.