April 9, 2009 8:35 PM PDT
Yahoo Mail suffers 'brief' outage
A "small fraction" of Yahoo Mail users couldn't get to their e-mail Thursday, the company said.
The outage affected less than 0.5 percent of users for less than 20 minutes, Yahoo said. "The problem has now been resolved," the company said.
Yahoo Mail has 280 million users worldwide, according to ComScore, so even small outages can affect many people. Yahoo isn't the only company to have recent blemishes on its record: Comcast had an e-mail outage on Saturday, and Google's Gmail went down in February.
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haven't been very responsive when you let them know. Might be time to bag 'em.
- by irvingsen April 13, 2009 1:48 AM PDT
- i havent had any email service from yahoo all day this sunday..easter and none of my friends have had access either so it has been down for at least 18 hours now
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