Google Talk is down

denzil_correa 13 years ago |

It's funny that all people in my contact list were blaming their Internet connections. It never occurred to them this issue would be with Google Talk. I don't remember the last time this happened after using it for about 8 years now!

aniket_ray 13 years ago |

It seems like something related to Google+ integration.

Today, my real name and the location that I had had in Google+ is appearing as my Google Talk name and status rather than the old nick/status that I had set.

untouchable 13 years ago | |

The cause is a core infrastructure failure I believe

edit: It was a change to talk, not sure what it was that failed yet.

edit 2: Google Talk has been restored for some users and should be resolved for all in near future.

rachelbythebay 13 years ago | | |

[citation requested]

I mean that in the "genuine curiosity" sense, not the usual snarky xkcd sense. What do you know? Who do you know? Please elaborate.

Have they angered Midas and his mighty golden touch? Did they finally get enough of them down at the same time to where they couldn't bring any of them back up? Circular dependencies are fun that way.

I was on call the day of a cascading failure event some years ago for something not too different than this. They kept trying to blame my service, but it wasn't us. We were actually staying up despite the extra load being created by all of the thrashing. It turned out to be something else entirely.

untouchable 13 years ago | | |

Citation - I work at Google (in a much different area). It was actually a change rolled out to talk systems. I don't know what the change was yet but will get details and the system is recovering.

soupboy 13 years ago | |

They used to have something similar back in the days of Orkut. The Orkut name would get set as the Google Talk name. People used to change their Orkut names a lot to say something "cool". Then suddenly they stopped syncing the accounts with Orkut and the name that you had on Orkut stuck.

mikeevans 13 years ago | | |

Shouldn't be a problem now with how strict they have been regarding Google+ names.

Apreche 13 years ago |

At least the status page isn't lying like the Amazon AWS one.

Zash 13 years ago |

The rest of the federated XMPP network ... working just fine.

blackRust 13 years ago | |

Not for me, connecting using a 3rd party client isin't working.

haakon 13 years ago | | |

I can connect to jabber.org with a third-party client just fine.

ph33r 13 years ago |

Looks like it's back up now. Google did a good job with this!

Starting from 'investigating reports Google Talk down' and following right through till service is restored with hourly updates is something that Amazon (and others) could learn from.

wowfat 13 years ago |

For one second i thought Google.com is down. That would have meant the internet is down!

recycleme 13 years ago | |

What you find in google is a subset of the world wide web which is a subset of the internet. There is much more to the internet than you think.

ramblerman 13 years ago | | |

lol, I think he was joking.

plasma 13 years ago |

Windows Azure West Europe is also offline - coincidence?

https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...

debacle 13 years ago | |

Mutually assured destruction.

ghosh 13 years ago |

Its down world wide or certain places? India appears to be down

ry0ohki 13 years ago |

Follow the status updates on their App Status Dashboard (still down): http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

Achshar 13 years ago |

What about paid Google apps accounts? Is it down for them too?

zecho 13 years ago | |

It is back up for my paid apps account, but not yet for my free accounts.

robin_reala 13 years ago | |

Yes (at least for some people in my company, not for me though).

ch0wn 13 years ago | |

Yes, it's down for paid apps accounts, too.

djd 13 years ago | |

yes google apps gtalk is also down

lucb1e 13 years ago |

A few minutes ago it worked from Pidgin, now I reboot on Windows and try Google+ and nobody is online. Found it very weird, but this explains... Odd though that it says it's disrupted since 12:40PM and it worked under an hour ago (it's now 16:30 here).

Edit: And I can access it again (16:34)

silverlight 13 years ago |

Is this also affecting Google Hangouts? Or just Talk?

microcentury 13 years ago | |

Affecting hangouts also for me (Ireland)

D_Guidi 13 years ago | |

both down in italy

xentronium 13 years ago |

Everything seems fine here in Russia.

sebslomski 13 years ago |

They probably use Google Fiber

chrislaco 13 years ago |

Can anyone else confirm or deny that over the last 6 months, GTalk, at least in iChat/Adium has been getting worse and worse in terms of random disconnects.

I'll have days where it's stable, and I'll have days where it just disconnects/reconnects 10 ties an hour (on different networks that day).

ditojim 13 years ago |

i live on google talk. i am having a very productive morning as a result.

nullspace 13 years ago |

It seems to be back up now.

guelo 13 years ago |

Twitter also just went down. Though I don't see how it could be related.

clhodapp 13 years ago |

My third-party client seems to be connecting to their network just fine.

udp 13 years ago | |

I can connect, I just can't send messages, people appear to be offline, etc.

orphol 13 years ago |

I noticed the same thing on my profile the info from G +

mumma 13 years ago |

Mountain Lion iMessages now support GTalk !!!

halis 13 years ago |

It was working fine around 2am CST in the US.

mikeevans 13 years ago |

Seems to be up for me now, DC area.

guga31bb 13 years ago | |

Also up for me, also DC area.

sickpig 13 years ago |

Up and running now in Italy

hfz 13 years ago | |

Up and running now in Indonesia as well.

liancheng 13 years ago |

China mainland OK now.