

There were also reports of difficulties for ICQ users from other countries. There is no exact data on the countries in which there are problems with the service, but it is known that in addition to Russian users, residents of Argentina, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Ukraine and the Czech Republic experienced massive difficulties. The problem affected both users from Russia and residents of other countries. Representatives of ICQ have not yet given any official comments on the failure. When trying to connect, the messages "Error redirecting to the database", "The connection limit for this account has been exceeded" or "The service is temporarily unavailable" appeared. It is known that AIM uses the same messaging protocol as ICQ - Oscar. For most users, both the alternative messengers QIP, Pidgin and Adium, as well as the official ICQ client, stopped working.ĭuring the outage, some users were unable to get online at all, while others' clients were unable to download their contact lists from the AIM servers. Today, October 3, there was another failure in the popular service ICQ.

Starting at about 8:50 am Moscow time, popular ICQ clients stopped working for users from different countries. Today there was another failure in the popular instant messenger ICQ.
