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title: "Google's \"20.5\" Hour Blogger Meltdown"
description: Millions of blog publishers using Google's Blogger.com service were unable to use the service mid-af...
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# [Google's "20.5" Hour Blogger Meltdown](https://www.websitemagazine.com/content/googles-blogger-20-hour-meltdown)

 Written by [Peter Devereaux](https://www.websitemagazine.com/content/author/peter-devereaux) | May 13, 2011 5:00:00 AM

**Millions of blog publishers using Google's Blogger.com service were unable to use the service mid-afternoon Thursday (including Google itself). Service has since been restored after 20.5 hours of issues.**

 

According to Google, during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, the service experienced some "data corruption" that impacted its behavior. As the near 24-hour long meltdown continued, bloggers and readers were experiencing a variety of anomalies including "intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages" according to the [official announcement post](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/blogger-is-back.html). 

 

Google did indicate that a small subset of Blogger users (estimated at 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday Google rolled back to a pre-maintenance state/version of Blogger - from Wednesday May 2011 - and is currently restoring posts which may have been temporarily removed around that time.

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