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Downdetector
/ˌdaʊn.dɪˈtɛk.tər/
Definition
1
A real-time online platform and website that tracks and displays outages, disruptions, and user-reported issues for major websites, apps, and internet services, aggregating data from millions of global users.
2
A crowd-sourced outage monitoring service, often the first stop for confirming whether your digital woes are personal or planetary.
Examples
When Instagram vanished into the ether mid-scroll, I dashed to Downdetector to bask in collective misery.
Downdetector's spike charts during a Netflix outage are basically modern hieroglyphs of internet despair.
My Wi-Fi was ghosting me, but Downdetector revealed the ISP was the real commitment-phobe that day.
Forget therapy; checking Downdetector during a Twitter takedown is cheaper catharsis.