\n According to DownDetector, more than 1,000 people have reported issues with Virgin Media, but according to the company, the network is operating as normal and has been all day.\n<\/p>\n
\n The issue may be that customers are unable to contact friends and family on other networks with outages, so have reported problems, but Virgin insists it has no technical issues.\n<\/p>\n
What is Downdetector?<\/p>\n
\n Downdetector is an online website that allows users of popular services including X (Twitter),\u00a0Instagram, Facebook, Virgin Media and more to report if they are having trouble with the services.\n<\/p>\n
\n The site only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Describing itself on its website, Downdetector is \u201cwhere people go when services don\u2019t work.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n RECOMMENDED READING:\n<\/p>\n
\n The website monitors disruptions to various key services including the internet, web hosting platforms, banks, social media and more.\n<\/p>\n
\n You can see the full methodology and learn more about how Downdetector collects status information and detects problems via its website.\n<\/p>\n
\n In short, users can get involved by submitting any issue reports on the platform.\n<\/p>\n
\n Problem indicators are also collected from social media and other factors on the web, Downdetector explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to DownDetector, more than 1,000 people have reported issues with Virgin Media, but according to the company,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}