Twitter down for everyone, not just you

While some Twitter users reported intermittent updates via TweetDeck dashboard applications, the short-message website was down for many late Thursday morning. Twitter acknowledged the outage via it's status blog shortly before noon ET, with this brief statement.:

Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.

Despite an update that followed soon after Twitter's original post, that the "issue has been stabilized and all services are restored," many were still unable to access the site. Further, the status website Down For Everyone or Just Me, reported that Twitter was still down.

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/twitter-down-everyone-not-just-you-912719#/technology/technolog/twitter-down-everyone-not-just-you-912719

Google Talk Is Down: Worldwide Outage Since 6:50 AM EDT

It’s not just you. GTalk is down worldwide. Google first recognized the issue and started investigating at 6:40 AM EDT. While Google Talk appears to be up at first glance, calls and messages fail to complete, likely leaving internet users feeling alone, adrift in a sea of information without anyone around to share a laugh over a cat GIF.

Since the service crashed, Google has provided hourly updates via the Google Talk Service Details page. The latest one, posted at 8:50 AM EDT, does not provide an estimated time when Google expects the service to be restored.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/google-talk-is-down-worldwide-outage-since-650-am-edt

Windows Azure outage hits Europe

Just in time for the Olympics, there’s a Windows Azure outage in Europe.

A flag posted at 11:09 UTC on the Windows Azure dashboard:
“We are experiencing an availability issue in the West Europe sub-region, which impacts access to hosted services in this region. We are actively investigating this issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.”

According to an update posted one hour later, the troubleshooting and data gathering continued.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/windows-azure-outage-hits-europe/

Salesforce.com suffers worldwide disruption after power outage

Summary: Salesforce.com has suffered a series of outages that left many unable to use the CRM service. Even the service status page was down for a while.

Salesforce.com customers continue to suffer as instances of the social enterprise service crumbled in the face of a power outage, the company said today.

The bright side is that many were tucked up in bed following the initial outage that began at 12:49 a.m. PDT. Europeans picked up the slack as they headed into work around the same time on local time. Many took to Twitter to complain.

http://www.zdnet.com/salesforce-com-suffers-worldwide-disruption-after-power-outage-7000000581/

Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more

An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. PT.

Amazon’s service health dashboard indicates that there are power issues in its North Virginia data center, most likely caused by severe storms in the region.

Independent checks by VentureBeat of Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and Heroku show each site not operating.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/