Where were you when the lights went out on TikTok? For a few hours on Sept. 15, there was one less way to hear Harry Styles sing(Opens in a new window) “Go home, get ahead, light-speed internet/I don’t wanna talk about the way that it was.”
Downdetector has the inside scoop and put together a list of the top 10 internet outages of 2022(Opens in a new window). TikTok’s came in at number 10, with about 300,000 Tokkers checking to see if they were alone in not being able to log in.
Next up is Snapchat, which blinked out of existence for four hours on July 12. Users who logged in found themselves kicked out faster than their photos could disappear. Over 300,000 users reported their woes to Downdetector.
Reddit is where so many go to get questions answered, but on April 3, they had to go to Downdetector instead, when Reddit was unavailable for two hours.
On Aug. 16, gamers had to answer the Call of Duty elsewhere. Anyone looking to wage virtual warfare had to wait for four hours.
Twitter is where most everyone on any other platform goes to complain about site outages. But on July 14, over 500,000 Twitter users flew over to Downdetector, because their newsfeeds refused to reload.
Just a few hours later on that same day, Instagram was similarly blank. Downdetector got 600,000 reports in just three hours.
If you went to Roblox to celebrate May the Fourth by playing Star Wars: Space Battle, you were out of luck. The gaming platform was down for several hours, with over 700,000 people taking their woes out on Downdetector.
Discord had its own, well, discord on March 8. The site has a passionate user base, because 1.1 million people reported issues to Downdetector over just two hours.
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Although WhatsApp is not the most popular messaging platform in the United States, it prevails in most of the world. That’s why an outage on Oct. 25 had 2.9 million people on Downdetector checking when service would be restored.
And the biggest outage of 2022 seems appropriate, since the site is known for summing up the year for so many of us. Spotify was down for two hours on March 8, and over 2.9 million people were jonesing for their aural fix.
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(Disclosure: Downdetector owner Ookla is owned by PCMag parent company Ziff Davis.)
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