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Your average person doesn't listen to twitter, they listen to the mainstream news.

And mainstream news will be either "company X offline for hours" if its just you, or "Amazon cloud outage takes multiple companies off line for hours" - the latter is better.

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That’s not true in our sector. We’re very industry specific and everyone shitposts on twitter and follows everyone else.

Your sector != average person.

Average person hears on the news that company X or cloud Y had an outage, at most they have some anger towards the company for a day or so until the next thing in the news cycle comes along.

In my experience, an average person seeing that one of their commonly-used tools is down due to a big tech company failure is just going to proclaim "snow day!" and not really mind at all.

Depends if it gets in the way of them making commission or money.

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