Recently there have been multiple episodes when Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and even Telegram have suffered downgrades, thus stopping working or slowing down dramatically. These malfunctions caused plenty of inconvenience for users who have not been able to upload on social channels or communicate through Whatsapp. In this article, Accurate Reviews experts will analyze the causes of these blackouts and the consequent reactions that have occurred.
INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK AND WHATSAPP BLACKOUTS
What can cause a blackout affecting Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp? A social network blackout can have a global impact when it occurs in multiple states and even continents. The issues experienced recently were present both on desktop and on mobile devices and presented different onsets, in fact, while some users were able to access the platforms and experienced limited functionality, others were completely unable to access or load content. A temporary outage of social channels can negatively impact users unable to communicate, but it can also cause serious material damage to those who use social media for business purposes. In fact, during the outage many services were not guaranteed and this resulted in a consequent loss of time and money. To the point where many users reached out to Facebook to receive damages compensation.
Some users have resorted to Twitter – which was the only active social channel at the time – to complain about what happened, flooding the platform with ironic memes regarding the blackout. Here are a few of them:
As a consequence from the latest outage at the beginning of July, users vented their “anger” on Twitter with the hashtags #facebookdown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown and more. The reports came from all over the world and Mark Zuckerberg had a hard timekeeping up with it. Through a Facebook spokesman, Mark stated to be aware of the facts and actively working to resolve the situation as quick as possible. While it’s not easy to pinpoint the exact cause of the outage, the issues experienced could be associated with the project the Menlo Park developers are working on, which aims to integrate the three applications.
Do you think that Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp will soon be affected by a new outage? When that happened, let’s remember to jump on Twitter!