Pavan Teja
Everyone is well aware of the outage that happened yesterday. Students, professionals and the common public everyone has panicked for a few minutes. Social media platforms have become an integral part of our daily lives, and sudden outage has terrified millions. On Monday, Facebook-owned apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and others went down due to some internal fault configuration.
As the apps stopped responding, people started rebooting their phones and went on trying different tactics to get the apps running. But the actual issue was not with our phones, but with Facebook. These apps went down globally nearly for 3.5biillion users. After trying different tactics and being disappointed, millions went to Twitter to inform about the issue. Then they understood the global outage of these apps.
Within a few minutes of the outage of the most popular social media apps, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, millions of people reported the issue on Twitter. With millions of users complaining #Whatsappdown #Instadown #Facebookdown became trending on Twitter. Many meme creators took the opportunity and showed off their creativity.
Thousands of memes started flooding the social media platform from Twitter. Twitter users held their heads high with pride as other platforms went down. The global outage of these apps created a meme fest on Twitter. For some time, it felt like the whole world is hanging out on Twitter.
Not only that, other brands have taken the opportunity to their advantage and made some funny remarks on Facebook. Within a few minutes, WhatsApp is down, Insta is down, Facebook is down, became the most searching keyword on Monday. However, everyone is quite confident about these social media giants that they will back up soon. At the same time, millions were afraid of their personal information leak. Luckily, nothing like that happened and apps started working after few hours.
Based on reports, the global outage of these apps has lasted for nearly 6 hours. Downdetector which tracks the downtime of the site and apps informed that this was the largest outage it had ever seen.
Facebook officials have been informed about the cause of this sudden fall of their apps. They stated that the global outage was because of the faulty configuration change. Our engineering teams informed, that configuration changes on the backbone routers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This has affected our data centers then resulted in the global outage of our services.
However, there is no evidence that any user data has been compromised luckily, Facebook officials stated. This was the main concern for millions of users, especially professionals. Back in the day, there have been many allegations against Facebook for disclosing their user’s data. Luckily this time that was not the case. As the Facebook team has informed that there was no users’ information compromise, people felt relieved.
Nearly after 6 hours, the services came up and running. Whatsapp CEO Will Cathcart and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have informed about this news that their services were back online and such situations were unlikely to happen again. They have also assured that they understand how much people across the world trust and are dependent on their services.
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