https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1501292209781366786
Incidentally: @DownDetector is garbage. It merely looks at mentions on Twitter of people saying something is down. That includes incorrect speculation. And it even amplifies that speculation recursively. Itβs reliably wrong, by design.
Is downdetector reliable at all? I feel every time something is down, a lot of unrelated sites also are reported as having problems. E.g. at the moment it reports AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare and Facebook among others having issues.
Re:Spotify was down
by whyrusleeping on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:43PM
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downdetector just uses search trends from google and twitter and other social apps, its definitely not checking if the site is 'down' on its own.
How do they know what people are searching? I've never seen an api for that
Re:Spotify was down
by precommunicator on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:14PM
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Spotify is on GCP
This was my suspicion too, regardless aws issues will have a knock on effect with a lot of companies anyway.
My RDS became unreachable for about 15 minutes.
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
EDIT: someone below mentioned Spotify is on GCP but Google appears to be having issues as well https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/