[netsharc]

Curious that since it's the .in domain, the map just shows India. But if you replace it with .com, or .de, it will show the map of those countries (with .de it redirects to a German version of the domain).

Someone said the other week that downdetector just monitors how many people check their site for outages, and if in a five minute time period 20000 people are looking at them to see if WhatsApp is down... then, that's what they report.

[callalex]

As I always say, downdetector has successfully predicted 20 of the last 3 outages. It really is the perfect website for the ad-supported revenue model.

[politelemon]

I wonder if that behaviour could be engineered to fake an outage, though I'm unsure as to what end.

[HenryBemis]

It wouldn't be much of a sabotage since the users would actually be able to access the 'service impacted'. Perhaps it could affect a stock price, but someone who sells a stock (i.e. Meta in this case) because WhatsApp had a 1-5-10-30mins downtime, is doing themselves a disservice and us a favor :)

[lvass]

>and us a favor :)

So there is a plan.

[ajsnigrutin]

I mean.. let's be fair, you open that site only when something isn't working, and are curious, if it's your phone/pc to blame, or if others have the same problem.