Downtime of Zuckerberg’s Empire Freaked Out Billions
The less-than-an-hour pause left people worried and plain as they were unable to operate all three 'indispensable' apps
The downtime of Mark Zuckerberg’s Empire – comprising Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger – of around an hour freaked out billions of users around the world.
All three applications – that are part of Zukerberg’s empire – ceased to function around 11 pm (PST) on Friday.
The less-than-an-hour pause left people worried and plain as they were unable to operate all three ‘indispensable’ apps.
All three apps displayed an error when billions of users around the world tapped the icon to open them.
Thousands of users around the world inquired about outage on different alternate platforms. Later it was known that it wasn’t just a problem faced by an area or a city but by billions of users around the globe.
Thanks for your patience, that was a long 45 minutes but we are back! #WhatsAppDown
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) March 19, 2021
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However, the golich of less than an hour brought a surge in registrations for Signal app which has widely been perceived as an alternate to Whatsapp after its controversial privacy policy.
Signal registrations are through the roof; welcome everyone! Solidarity to the folks working on the WhatsApp outage. People outside of the tech industry will never understand how weird it sounds when someone says that they are “looking forward to some weekend downtime.
— Signal (@signalapp) March 19, 2021
The downtime emerged as a challenge for Mark Zuckerberg which enabled the users to think moving to alternate platforms especially after Facebook has been lampooned for breaching privacies.
