FAQ

A place to say what you've noticed and find out whether other people have noticed it too. For websites there's Downdetector. For everything else, there's Tingle.

Anything you've actually noticed: a product gone from every shop, an app misbehaving, a smell on your street, a trend you keep seeing. Small things are the point.

Not to search, read, press Me too, or start a Tingle. You need one to comment, follow, or put your name on a Tingle you started.

How many people pressed Me too or started that Tingle. Nothing else counts towards it, not views, not comments, not shares.

Yes. We record that a device pressed it once, and the country it was in, so the count and the map stay honest. Nobody can see what you've pressed Me too on, including other users.

It's our Trending. A Tingle that got a lot of Me toos in the last hour. It's about speed, not size.

The moment the first person told Tingle about it.

No. Tingle shows what people say they're noticing. That's different from proof. Read the comments, look at where it's coming from, and decide for yourself.

When you type something, we compare its meaning, not its exact words, against Tingles that are already active. "My phone is really hot" and "iPhones overheating today" find each other. If there's a close match, we show it to you before you create a new one. Different cities stay separate; a smell in Barcelona and a smell in Paris are two Tingles.

Press Me too on it. That's the whole idea. If yours is really something different, start a new one.

You can fix a typo in the first 15 minutes, before anyone else has pressed Me too. You can delete it while fewer than 5 people have noticed it. After that it belongs to everyone who confirmed it, and you can remove your name from it instead.

Every comment has a menu with Report. Every Tingle page has one too. A person looks at every report.

Both are in Settings. Download gives you everything you've done on Tingle as a file. Delete removes your account, your comments become "[deleted]", and any Tingles you started stay but without your name.

Axel Katalan, in Barcelona. There's more on the About page.