New services monitored by downrightnow: LinkedIn, YouTube, and more
31
2011
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve turned on monitoring for several more services: LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, PayPal, Tumblr, Skype, and Netflix. We have divided our expanded line-up into two tiers to make it easier to get alerts for the services that most interest you. Followers of @downrightnow on Twitter and fans of our Facebook Page will now receive alerts only for top-tier services; for other services, just follow our new secondary Twitter account, @downrightnowtoo.
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Get downrightnow status alerts in your Facebook News Feed
10
2010
In addition to our web site, Twitter account and RSS feed, there’s a new way to stay updated on service outages: the downrightnow Facebook Page. Just click the Facebook “Like” button below and you’ll get notifications about service disruptions right in your News Feed.
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Facebook Issues – February 20, 2010
20
2010
Numerous users have filed reports on Twitter and downrightnow today about a problem reaching Facebook. We have reproduced the issue and noticed symptoms including slow loading times, missing stylesheets and even difficulty with third-party web sites that incorporate widgets using the Facebook API. The outage has lasted at least 30 minutes as of 11:30am ET.
Posted | 20 comments | Facebook, Outages
Windows Live Hotmail Outage – February 16, 2010
16
2010
Just after noon ET today, hundreds of users began noticing problems logging in to Hotmail and other related services using Microsoft’s Windows Live ID. Thanks to the flood of user reports, downrightnow quickly publicized the outage at 12:15pm ET:
Posted | 7 comments | Hotmail, Outages
Facebook, Blogger Improve Outage Communication
5
2009
Here at downrightnow, we’re frequently among the first to notice when a popular web service hits turbulence. We also pay close attention to how quickly companies respond and what they have to say. With web-based email and social networking becoming ubiquitous and indispensable, users clamor for quick acknowledgement and detailed information whenever a web site suffers an outage. The past week has seen improvements from both Facebook and Blogger in how they communicate during and after service disruptions, and their efforts are worthy of praise.
downrightnow monitors the status of your favorite web services, combining user reports and official announcements to tell you when there's service trouble.
