WhatsApp shut down News, Tuesday morning, nearly six hours after the social media platform was immobilized by an outage, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were at least partially reconnected to the worldwide internet.
Facebook and its Instagram and Whatsapp apps went dark in the late afternoon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what site tracking service Downdetector described as the largest such outage it had ever seen. Users all over the world were unable to use Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram for several hours. Billions of users check in to each of the three sites daily.
The outage was indeed the company’s second setback in as many days, following a whistleblower’s accusation on Sunday that the corporation has consistently prioritized profit before cracking down on hateful speech and misinformation.
Whatsapp Tweeted, Apologies if you were unable to use WhatsApp today. We’re slowly but steadily restoring WhatsApp’s functionality. Thank you for the patience. When we have additional information to give, we will keep you informed.
“I apologize to every small and large enterprise, family, and people who rely on us; Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer stated, adding that “it may take a bit of time to get to 100%.”
Facebook’s stock plunged 4.9 percent on Monday, its worst daily drop since November, amid a larger selloff in technology equities. Facebook has roughly 2 billion daily active users. Internal error, according to security experts, caused the disruption, however insider sabotage is technically possible.
Facebook admitted that users were having problems accessing its apps after the outage began. Facebook, the world’s second-largest digital advertising network was losing around $545,000 in U.S. ad revenue every hour during outage.
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