Blogger is one of the most popular blogging platforms and it's a free blogging service owned by Google. Recently, the company suffered an outage -Thursday May 12 and was down all day until the service was finally restored and returned to normal- Friday morning of May 13.
Millions of blog publishers using Google Blogger were affected including myself. We received an error message along with an apology for the inconvenience and publishers were unable to post to Blogger.
Blogger Tech Manager Eddie Kessler said in a post on the Blogger Buzz blog. "We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain". Eddie Kessler made an apology and explanation.