Some users of Yahoo services, and Yahoo Mail in particular are currently experiencing outages. Many have taken to Twitter to voice their complaints.
An apparently official statement from Yahoo on the matter is making the rounds on Twitter as well. It says, “”Some Yahooservices are currently inaccessible..We are working to correct the issue.”
Mashable obtained another, slightly longer statement saying, “Some Yahoo services are currently inaccessible to some users in certain locations. We are working to correct the issue and restore all functionality immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to our users who might be affected.”
@smorris777
smorris777yes, Y!Mail is down .. except on iOS (I can access via my iPad) http://t.co/de9xygZ via @cnet
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@MiddleSeatView
Christina Saull Yahoo mail has been AWFUL lately RT @mashable: Yahoo Mail Suffers Outage for Some Users – http://on.mash.to/oQUdDq 21 minutes ago via TweetDeck · powered by @socialditto
@lauranav
LAURANAVThumbs down, New Yahoo Mail. You keep pushing me to gmail, which I’ve only avoided because I am lazy. 39 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto
@Petabites
Petabitesgot a Yahoo! mail #fail for the last hour. Webmail site down at the authentication stage of login for mysef and many others. 53 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto
@rudiuyee
rudi kurniawanYahoo Mail is down for some users: What gives, YMail? Are you trying to lose users to Gmail? http://bit.ly/nqwAfo 54 minutes ago via twitterfeed · powered by @socialditto
Yahoo Mail users that haven’t been able to access the site, have been getting a message telling them that the webpage isn’t available.
People seem to be searching Google, hoping to find the site when Yahoo can’t (I’m guessing unsuccessfully). Top Google Trends at the moment include: “yahoo.com sign in,” “yahoo.com mail,” and “www.yahoo.com mail.”
I have to assume Google is getting a kick out of this, considering its recent Gmail push (which is probably more a Google+ push in reality). Although, it’s not as if Gmail has been completely immune from outages itself.
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