NEW DELHI: Google Talk, the popular instant messaging service, and Twitter suffered outages on Thursday, affecting millions of web users. While the problem with Google Talk started around 4pm and lasted for over four hours, Twitter's woes began barely minutes after Google had restored its service. The problems plagued the social networking website for nearly an hour.
The outage at Google and Twitter affected millions of users across the world. Google Talk service was restored around 8.25pm while Twitter came back online around 12.30am.
"This issue has been resolved," an update on status.twitter.com said.
Ironically, the Google Talk outage was first reported by users on Twitter.
Many Google Talk users reported that they could log into the service, saw their contacts with the respective status but failed to send messages to them. Some other users could not log in. The service is not only used by people to keep in touch with friends but has also become a popular way to interact with co-workers in offices.
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