A Rough Morning For The Net: Twitter, Google Talk and Windows Azure All Suffer Service Outages
07/26/2012 | Brad Chacos


They say bad things come in threes, and that was definitely true for folks who rely on the Internet for communications and cloud-based data centers today. The woes started this morning when Google Talk went down and stayed down for several hours. Then Microsoft's Windows Azure service went belly up in Europe, followed by some users running into outage issues with Twitter. And without Twitter, how are you going to complain about the other services being down?

It's odd that all three toppled in succession like dominos, but fortunately, none of the disruptions were overly long. A quick glance at Digsby tells me Google Talk is back up and running, and Windows Azure's status dashboard shows green lights and clean sailing around the globe. Twitter's status still says that "Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue." We haven't run into any issues Tweeting retro-tinged pics of our utilitarian meals, however.

How about you? Did the service outages knock you for a loop today?