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Signal vs Instagram Snowball on Facebook Outage Day. it happened on twitter

October 5, 2021
Bharat Times

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all faced shutdown on Monday

Facebook faced a six-hour blockade on Monday that shut down its WhatsApp Messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, many of its 2.7 billion global users. Reports of outages and disruptions started pouring in at around 11:30 EST on Monday — but Facebook’s loss turned into a gain for other platforms. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all facing disruptions, Twitter is where all the action took place on Monday. From Instagram chief Adam Mosseri to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, everyone flocked to the microblogging platform as the Facebook-owned services shut down their users.

Signal, the private messaging app backed by Edward Snowden, saw millions of people signing up as WhatsApp suffered prolonged downtime. bloomberg. Millions of new users joined the app on Monday, Signal announced on Twitter. The messaging service also received support from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In response to a tweet by Edward Snowden urging people to switch from WhatsApp to Signal, Mr Dorsey quipped: “Signal is WhatsApp.”

DownDetector, a service that monitors reports of outages, said the Facebook service outage was the largest it has ever seen. The outage prompted an apology from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, and the microblogging platform’s official account itself joined a meme-fest with several memes and jokes on Twitter.

“Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you trust our services to stay connected with the people you care about,” Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are now back online,” he said in his post.

Meanwhile, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that it was a tough day at work as millions of users failed to access the photo and video sharing platform.

When a Twitter user suggested “Instagram should remain offline forever”, Mr Mosseri replied: “They fight over words… but it feels like a snow day.”

Several Facebook employees told New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mack that they were unable to work because of the outage. The reporter tweeted, “Nobody can do the work. Many people I’ve talked to say it’s the equivalent of a ‘snow day’ at the company.”

Facebook attributed its October 4 outage to a “faulty configuration change”.

The company said in a blog post, “We would like to clarify at this time that we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We have no evidence that this downtime resulted in User data was compromised.”

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