Twitter down detector shows sudden surge in reported outages

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12 pointsVicterius4 comments

I’ve been keeping an eye on this, but it’s all self reported right could just be people poking fun? Correlated with the news last night and people waking up this morning.

They also parse tweets. Entirely possible somebody posting "twitter down would be really bad" on Twitter is taken as valid report.

Edit: "Downdetector gathers data about the status of a service through Twitter and uses sentiment analysis to detect issues for a given company and location"

> sentiment analysis

We’ll that’s certain to be going off lately.

I've been having tons of issues with the web client the last couple of days, but on iOS it's fine.

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