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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  Donna Houston (@DonnaHo50584821) reported 11 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

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  Jason Short (@shortproof) reported 17 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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  birthday wyan || 101 UNTIL BITTERMILK 💖 (@merrymiIk) reported 29 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

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jon Morgan 🇺🇦 (@JonMorganDP) reported 1 minute ago

  19. I never had an AOL address.

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  David Smith (@DavidSm72135093) reported 2 minutes ago

  @SaltyMommaC My wife and I used AOL and never used myspace.

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  Donna - So much older then; younger than that now. (@CroneVivant) reported 2 minutes ago

  @RichRautenstra1 @SeanOhhhh Live moderation is not as good as it was. I worked behind the scenes moderating online discussion (starting in the AOL days). I'm retired now, but the concept seems to be that if something offends you, block it. I'm not a fan of that. This needed to come down ASAP and cops called

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  p19k (@peteralexbizjak) reported 2 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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  Lori (@mcpig3) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Magickgirl37 19. I never had an AOL address.

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  Valphrex (@Valphrex) reported 4 minutes ago

  @oldmedia I know that this is kind of dumb, but I actually miss the AOL dial-up. It was annoying, and it kept my parents from being able to call anyone, but it was a very specific time we'll never get back. I was a young teenager experiencing online freedom for the first time.

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  Dreaming of the Moon (@moonchaospoet) reported 5 minutes ago

  @PirateQueenJo I am so mad about this. These people are the worst. I hope she is doing okay after aöl that bullshit.

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  Ian Simpson (@IanSimp76266808) reported 13 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 90 points. Never had AOL, and never had a Walkman.

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  Robert Flynn 🐶🐱🌴✝🇺🇸🇩🇴🇮🇪🇨🇴🇭🇰🇹🇼 (@RobertFlynn202) reported 14 minutes ago

  @honeymoon250 19 Never had an AOL address.

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  Sean 🇨🇦 (@CsbWorlds) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TimothyImholt The count for me is 19. Never had an AOL address, and yes, I am GenX.