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Re:Meta outage by whatwhaaaaat on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @01:35PM (#39607486)
yeah that’s my point. No one who arranges icons by penis is taking time to go file a report on down detector.
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Re:Meta outage by samtheprogram on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:27PM (#39608092)
Ahh, I see. In that case, most of DownDetectors data are from Twitter and other sources, not first party reporting, although even in the case of first party data, it is also sourced via "visits to DownDetector" which can be from a simple Google search for "is Instagram down?"

If DownDetector relied primarily on direct reporting, they'd be the last to know.

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