Biggest outage of the year: WhatsApp, FB and Instagram were down for almost 6 hours around the world; Services were interrupted due to DNS routing issues

  • Hindi News
  • National
  • WhatsApp, Facebook And Instagram Servers Down Worldwide, Troubled Users Are Complaining On Twitter

New Delhi2 hours ago

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms for more than six hours By the time it faced worldwide shutdown. Social media platforms WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram suddenly stopped working worldwide. This problem came to light around 9.15 pm on Monday night. All three social media platforms have billions of users all over the world including India. After this people immediately started giving their reactions on Twitter. Facebook shares fell up to 6% since the outage.Mark Zuckerberg speaks on the global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp and InstagramFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence about the permanent global outage of all three of his platforms – Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – as he said on October 5 that the services are “now coming back online”. In addition, the CEO said, “Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you trust our services to stay connected to the people you care about.”

Thousands of users complained

This problem of outage persisted even after a lapse of several hours. People were neither able to send nor receive messages. This problem came due to the company’s server being down. According to the outage tracking company Downdetector.com, 80 thousand users filed complaints with WhatsApp and more than 50 thousand with Facebook. Facebook and WhatsApp have clarified Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are all owned by Facebook. After the service was stopped, Facebook has said that some people are having trouble using the app. We apologize for this. This problem will be fixed soon.

There, In a statement issued by WhatsApp on social media, it has been said that we know that some people are facing problems at this time. We are working to get things back to normal and will let you know as soon as possible. thank you for your patience.

Facebook is rarely down
There are very few cases of Facebook being down. Nevertheless, when this happens, there is a lot of impact on social media users all over the world, because all three major social media platforms belong to Facebook. The company does not give any information about such slow down, nor does it give any reason for this.

Even after the problem has been resolved, the company does not explain why this happened. In 2019, Facebook had the biggest slowdown ever. Even at that time, the company had only said that some fault had occurred during the routine maintenance operation. It has been removed.

Android, iOS and PC problems everywhere
The problem of downing of all three platforms has appeared on all Android, iOS and PC. While Facebook and Instagram users are unable to update the news feed, WhatsApp users were unable to send any message. Zuckerberg had admitted a serious issue
American technology blog The Verge published a leaked transcript of the 2019 slowdown. It was told that the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had considered such a slowdown as a serious issue. He believed that any such problem can divert people to use the platform of our competitors. It can take months to win people’s trust when this happens.What does the company have to say on the current slow down?

Company spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter that we apologize for the inconvenience caused to people. People are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible. However, Stone did not specify why this problem occurred and how long it would take to fix it.6 months ago the platforms were stalling for 42 minutes About 6 months ago also WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were stalling all over the world for 42 minutes. Then this problem started at 11.05 pm and continued till around 11:47 pm. WhatsApp has been downloaded more than 5 billion times in the world.WhatsApp has crashed several times in the past due to increased load on the server. Soon this problem is resolved. That much time is enough to trouble billions of users. However, there are few reports of WhatsApp crashing all over the world.

Note: This article has been indexed to our site. We do not claim legitimacy, ownership or copyright of any of the content above. To see the article at original source Click Here

Related Posts
Details of practices at Kerry mental health service to be referred to Garda thumbnail

Details of practices at Kerry mental health service to be referred to Garda

Revelations of significant harm being done to children who were attending mental health services in south Co Kerry have been referred to An Garda Síochána for possible criminal investigation. The Health Service Executive (HSE) said it had also sent all relevant information about failings at South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) to…
Read More
Pertamina Go Global Gas Subholding Officer thumbnail

Pertamina Go Global Gas Subholding Officer

PAG mengirimkan wakilnya untuk tampil sebagai keynote speaker di Gastech Conference REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- PT Perta Arun Gas (PAG) sukses berperan aktif di kancah internasional. Afiliasi Subholding Gas Pertamina ini mengirimkan wakilnya pada ajang Gastech Conference and Exhibition 2021 yang digelar di World Trade Center (WTC), Dubai, Uni Emirat Arab. Perwira PAG, Khaliful Ichsan tampil…
Read More
Community and voluntary health workers to go on ‘indefinite strike’  thumbnail

Community and voluntary health workers to go on ‘indefinite strike’ 

Thousands of health workers in the community and voluntary sector are due to commence an “indefinite strike” from October 17th.  A joint statement from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Fórsa, INMO and SIPTU said community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the HSE and other state agencies will begin a nationwide strike in
Read More
E-mart and more supermarkets added to exposure site list thumbnail

E-mart and more supermarkets added to exposure site list

coronavirus, canberra, covid, exposure sitesNew COVID-19 exposure sites across Canberra released on Thursday include an E-mart, lakeside café and a butcher. E-mart in Canberra city was exposed on Thursday, September 30 from 3.35pm to 4.20pm. It is listed as a monitor site. Stella's by the lake, a café across from Lake Ginninderra, was exposed on…
Read More
Index Of News
Total
0
Share