starting in march 2014 tomnod took images gathered by digitalglobe satellites and offered them to the public for viewing and identification in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. over 8 million people used the site to look for signs of wreckage, oil spills and other objects of interest. prior to this search effort tomnod had 10,000 contributors for other projects on the site. users could tag images which are later reviewed with algorithms. the site was down on 11 and 12 march due to high traffic (100,000 visits per minute). it was reported that over 650,000 "objects of interest" had been tagged by users on tomnod and that their maps had been viewed over 98 million times. originally tomnod had included 24,000 square kilometres of satellite imagery for users to search. later they included maps of 14,000 km of the straits of malacca and the indian ocean as new information was released.