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Dowdetector by Ookla: Largest Outages of 2025

In 2025, digital services proved both indispensable and fragile. This year’s largest outages were defined by platform-level disruptions, particularly across video, gaming, and communication platforms, that impacted millions of users. However, given how many individual platforms rely on the same few cloud providers and core systems, the role of centralized infrastructure also played a key role, demonstrating how a single point of failure can still cause disruption to cascade across multiple services simultaneously.

Downdetector® data from 2025 Ookla could analyze millions of user reports and identify the largest website and service outages of the year.

The World’s Biggest Outages of 2025

2025 saw a combination of major outages across gaming, streaming, and social media services, but none were more impactful than the cloud services outages that affected companies across the globe. These large-scale incidents underscored how failures in core infrastructure can ripple outward to millions of users. Here is a look at the largest global outages of 2025, according to Downdetector data.

 

In Europe:

 

  • PlayStation Network global issue topped the EU list with 1.7 million reports.
  • Snapchat saw the second-highest outage activity in the region with 989,559 reports submitted by users.
  • Vodafone’s UK-wide internet outage generated 833,211 reports.
  • WhatsApp caused significant disruption for its users with 621,763 reports.
  • Spotify’s outage recorded 468,334 reports, making it a major non-video streaming event.
  • Odido experienced, within 10 days, two separate outages that totaled 357,685 reports (June 15th) and 382,003 reports (June 25th).

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Is The New Twitter Blue Worth The Money?

Twitter has undergone some serious changes after Elon Musk took over the social media app. A lot of users on the app are questioning whether these changes are really worth the money. Be it the new Twitter Blue or the updated prices, Twitter is definitely changing its approach. There have been some seriously mixed reactions to the changes made to the Twitter app.

ExpressVPN’s research states that many Twitter might end up losing followers after the recent changes made to the social media platform. If we take a look at predictions, Twitter may lose up to 33 million users globally by 2024. Not only that, there is a considerable risk of Twitter losing 6% of its current US users by the end of 2023. The company has also laid off a huge number of employees recently. With the future of Twitter being rocky, let’s see whether Twitter Blue will be a saving grace for the social media app or not.

How Twitter Changed After Elon Musk Took Over?

After the recent acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, the social media app has gone through some serious changes. Be it the sudden layoffs of a vast number of employees, or the introduction of a premium version, Twitter is for sure changing. The most exciting change to Twitter has to be the introduction of Twitter Blue, a premium version of Twitter for users. 

The paid service allows users to access a blue tick, and the feature even provides a gold tick for businesses and brands. But the question remains, is Twitter Blue worth the money?

Is Twitter Blue Worth It?

Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, and the platform has been undergoing constant changes since then. Twitter Blue launched soon after, allowing users to get a verified tick for a monthly subscription. To access Twitter Blue, users have to pay a price of 11 USD for iOS or Android devices and 8 USD to access Twitter Blue on a PC.

Before we discuss if Twitter Blue is worth the money or not, we will have to see the perks that it offers. Other than providing Blue or Gold ticks to a profile, Twitter Blue also allows users to edit their tweets after posting them. Additionally, users can undo tweets, bookmark folders, access top articles, upload longer videos, customize the Twitter interface, and upload an NFT profile picture. 

Twitter Blue might be useful for brands and creator account with a huge following. However, the feature is not very useful for people who are not very active on the social media app. Most perks on Twitter Blue simply help users customize the look of their profile or allow users the feature to edit their content after posting it. It can be said the feature is only worth it if you use Twitter heavily and have a huge following to cater to.

Conclusion

It can not be denied that Twitter Blue has been getting some positive reviews ever since its launch. However, many users are avoiding getting the service for themselves as the prices are too high. Even if the feature is worth the money, most users do not need to get a blue tick just to access some perks on the social media platform. 

Twitter Blue might be an interesting feature for businesses; however, brands are also not very keen on spending money to access the selected perks they might be able to avail through Twitter Blue. Still, the feature is quite new, and users have yet to decide whether they want to pay the price to access the features that Twitter Blue offers.