It's no secret that Internet outages can be frustrating and disruptive, especially when they affect popular platforms and web hosting providers that many people rely on in their daily lives.
While Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay can give us insight into our listening habits, interruption tracker Downdetector (opens in a new tab) also gave its data on the biggest internet outages of 2022.
From the massive Spotify outage in March to the widespread impact of the WhatsApp crash in October, these outages have harmed millions of users and interrupted their access to essential online services.
The biggest internet outages of 2022
Perhaps the biggest outage had an effect on the aforementioned Spotify Wrapped, as users of the popular music streaming platform were unable to access content for up to two hours in March 2022.
But despite affecting just over 6 million users, the crash is far from the biggest outage of XNUMX, when more than XNUMX million Meta users were left without access after a glitch. in the month of October two thousand twenty-one.
The second place in 2022, just XNUMX million behind Spotify, was indeed that memorable WhatsApp moment, albeit several months later, in October.
The third site went to Discord in the month of March 2022 (one with one million users), with the fourth and fifth sites going to Roblox (May 2022, 2022 users) and Instagram (July XNUMX, XNUMX users). .
The top ten complete it: Twitter (July 2022, five hundred users); CoD (August 2022, three hundred and fifty users); Reddit (April 2022, three hundred zero users); Snapchat (July 2022, three hundred,000 users); and the sensation that is TikTok (September 2022, three hundred,000 users).
Among the 2022 discoveries, perhaps the most notable are issues affecting social media platforms, which accounted for 3% of the largest outages. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, XNUMX of the most popular social networking sites according to Statcounter (opens in a new tab), representing more than XNUMX% of all accounts, were hurt.
While the outages varied in terms of the number of users affected and the duration of the outage, each and every one served as a reminder of the importance of maintaining a stable and reliable Internet connection.