Why did AIM for Ichat suddenly return an error?

I was using AIM for iChat earlier this morning and everything was working fine. Then suddenly, without warning, it logs out of every iChat account and returns the error: "An internal error occured that disconnected you from all iChat services. To resume iChat, log in again to your instant messaging account." I can log into my bonjour and jabber account, but as soon as I try to connect to AIM, it brings them all offline. I went to AIM.com and signed in and have been using the web client since, but apparently this has happened to about half of my friends on iChat. Why would this be and what can I do to fix it?

Hi,
Now and then the AIM Servers have a blip and many people seems to get kicked Off Line.
I have server accounts/AIM IDs and keep some using SSL and the api.oscar.aol.com server on port 443 and some using the login.oscar.aol.com server on port 5190 without SSL.
Usually it only effects one group of my logins and not all of them.
It can of course be a server local to you that is having issues.
10:48 PM Sunday; February 26, 2012
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