Meebo, the web-based multi-protocol IM tool used by more than 30 million people, has been down for the last hour or so. The service recently added support for Facebook Chat, which was then blocked by Facebook, but we dont think that has anything to do with todays outage. Weve contacted the company to find out whats going on and when service might be restored.
Update: Meebo says the problem is due to a power outage at one of their ISPs and they are working with them to restore service.
The most popular alternative to Meebo is probably eBuddy. Meanwhile, the best place to confirm that a service is down and commiserate with other users remains Twitter search.