Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage for six hours resulted in the loss of $ 7 billions to Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook.
On the night of the 4th of October, services of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram went down globally. With the social media platforms being inaccessible, its founder suffered a huge loss. The six hours outage of social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram was the longest global outage in history.
Besides the social media users, Facebook employees also faced problems accessing the system, while making calls and were spammed with external emails.badges. They even struggled to use the company’s internal communications platform, following which they needed to use platforms, like LinkedIn, Zoom, and Discord to do their jobs. Employees were even unable to enter buildings and conference rooms because the six hour outage also affected their digital badges.
After hours of server disturbance, during the early hours of the 5th of October, Tuesday the officials of Facebook published a blog post which mentioned the worldwide outage and its cause. The post said, “The six hours of worldwide outage across its platforms including Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and OculusVR were caused by configuration changes to its routers which coordinate network traffic between the company’s data centers.” They also apologised for the outage and said, “Apologies to everyone who hasn’t been able to use WhatsApp today. We’re starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again. Thank you so much for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share.”
Meanwhile, due to the outage of three social media platforms Mr. Mark Zuckerberg slipped on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index list. He was in the 3rd position and now is on the 5th spot due to yesterday’s loss with a net profit of $ 121.6 billions. In just six hours, the stock of Facebook fell by 5 % taking the total decline of shares by 15 % since mid September 2021.
Now, all the social media platforms which suffered global outage are now working smoothly. In India there are 53 crore WhatsApp users, 41 crore Facebook users and 21 crore Instagram users.
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