Starlink problems: 90 reports AT&T: 75,000 reports
I don't think I would put those two events on the same scale here. As a frequent user of DownDetector and other service monitoring tools, the graphs don't tell the story properly and there is always a bunch of services that have more reports than 90 at any given time. Also, DD uses mostly "self-reporting" in which users report they have problems with a service. Those problems could be for any reason and not be connected to other user problems at all. You have to take DD as a general indicator of problems and not a finely tuned instrument of failure indication.
As for AT&T, 75K reports is kind of low for a nationwide cellular provider. I'd expect more reports for the amount of news this is making. Seems overhyped compared to other outages that were bigger and got a lot less coverage. That makes me suspicious. It's getting news coverage but the massive Optum healthcare/insurance cyberattack that happened in the last 24 hours is getting crickets. Optum affects a lot of people including prescription filling and insurance claim payments/authorizations. That's a much bigger issue than 75K people who can't get on TikTok.
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