{"id":55845,"date":"2012-07-26T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=55845"},"modified":"2012-07-26T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:45:36","slug":"google-talk-downtime-frustrates-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55845-google-talk-downtime-frustrates-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Talk downtime frustrates users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s Gtalk service has been experiencing a prolonged downtime today, and numerous South African users can still not use the popular messenger program.<\/p>\n

Google confirmed the problems which started early on Thursday morning, saying that \u201cWe’re investigating reports of an issue with Google Talk\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shortly after its first announcement which was made at 12:40, the company said that \u201cWe’re aware of a problem with Google Talk affecting a majority of users. The affected users are able to access Google Talk, but are seeing error messages and\/or other unexpected behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest from the company, at 15:50, is that \u201cWe are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 7\/26\/12 4:50 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many users confirmed the downtime, which included humorous comments including “I think the world is ending. What other reasonable explanation can there be?” and “Seriously interfering with my capacity to avoid doing any work”.<\/p>\n

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Numerous South Africans continue to struggle using Google\u2019s Gtalk messenger <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":55273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,13869,35],"class_list":["post-55845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-gtalk","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55847,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions\/55847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}