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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!

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

lol, I think he was joking.

Windows Azure West Europe is also offline - coincidence?

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

Mutually assured destruction.

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

Principality of Sealand also down

Aus not doing so well either

South Africa is down too.

Black Hawk Down

Down in Austin, Texas. I can see some of my contacts online though.

Up and down (reconnects every 2 minutes) in Northern Virginia, USA

Saudi is up (very odd indeed with everywhere else down...)

Berlin, Germany .. i can see my gtalk online.

"They're all down, Dave"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKF2qd0-iQ

Uruguay, South America, partially down

France as well

And in the UK

I can't get on via the mobile client or on Google Plus, but I can sign in with an XMPP client or the web client on GMail.

If I send a message through XMPP, it appears in the chat window in GMail, so there's at least some actual connectivity happening. Messages aren't getting through or appearing in my logs though.

Edit: Messages are appearing in logs. My clients don't agree on who is online, though.

Up for me, but none of my contacts are online...

Still down in London...

Portugal seems down as well.

Down in greater Boston, MA

Down in Beijing, China.

Down in Tokyo as well..

New York City is down

Netherlands is down.

Ditto for Singapore.

Israel down as well.

Pakistan also down.

Down in Latvia too.

Service restored in Latvia (for some users).

Belgium seems ok.

Down for me.

Ireland as well.

Down in Canada.

Denmark is up.

Hong Kong down

Egypt is down

Malaysia down

Estonia down.

Nairobi down

germany down

Ukraine down

Brazil down

Jordan down

Norway down

Turkey down

Poland down

China down

China donw

Nigeria's down.

North Texas appears to be up.

NZ down

same in china

Oh. I also got a network error on XMPP in Beijing, China.

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

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

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

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

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

yes google apps gtalk is also down

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)

Is this also affecting Google Hangouts? Or just Talk?

Affecting hangouts also for me (Ireland)

both down in italy

Everything seems fine here in Russia.

They probably use Google Fiber

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).

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

It seems to be back up now.

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

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

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

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

Mountain Lion iMessages now support GTalk !!!

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

Seems to be up for me now, DC area.

Also up for me, also DC area.

Up and running now in Italy

Up and running now in Indonesia as well.

China mainland OK now.

Nairobi down.

Google Talk is down