Apple can't compete with Google Search by buying Duck Duck Go as it relies on Microsoft Bing's shallow index. Bing (by market share) has failed to compete with Google search. To be good enough it's about scale not necessarily fancy names
That doesn't take away their embarrassment. It's mean how many websites rely on fastly. Twitter hasn't been loading emojis in a while, and I believe it's for the same reason.
Status is an anonymous public notes (statuses) sharing application similar to WhatsApp statuses (which i built a few days before my birthday during a personal hackerthon) It allows sharing short texts styled with optional custom background/foreground colors and font weight.
Underneath status is powered by socket.io. It's message exchange server is written in nodejs It handles incoming connections and assigns connecting clients a room with not less the maximum number of users allowed per room (or creates one simply to avoid congestion), Its also instructed to forward messages from each connected client to the room they were assigned to earlier.
On the surface status is a Progress Web Application offline mood supports the ability to read and publish private statuses locally without a server connection