The internet and the structures that uphold it prove surprisingly fickle when an app, service or platform you regularly use suddenly goes down. Throughout 2025, Tom’s Guide tracked 75 outages across nearly 50 different services and companies.
Looking back through the various blackouts, some were more impactful than others, with most lasting only an hour or two. To judge how staggering the interruptions were this year, we looked at how many other services were impacted or how often a service went down.
