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Re:Spotify was down by smoe on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:31PM (#30605224)
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.
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Re:Spotify was down by whyrusleeping on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:43PM (#30605518)
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.
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Re:Spotify was down by hanniabu on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:23PM (#30606328)
How do they know what people are searching? I've never seen an api for that
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Re:Spotify was down by precommunicator on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:14PM (#30608670)
https://trends.google.com/
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