Hit us up if you’re one of those reading this message who had to switch their WiFi connections on and off, thinking you had a poor internet connection going on. Well, we at Read Scoops thought the same until we realised most other websites are running fine and we got to know that there’s a major worldwide server outage of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
Millions of users across the world flocked to other social media channels like Snapchat and Twitter, mostly the latter where you get updates like this in lighting quick time. Since they’re all owned by the same brand Facebook, the Mark Zuckerberg owned brands run on the same server and if one goes down, they all go down.
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Of course, they’ve got teams of hundreds and thousands working on getting a solution within minutes but a few seconds are enough for those running businesses on these platforms. Every second is money and being out for a couple of minutes could cause losses worth billions of dollars. Having said that, it’s not the first time these servers have crashed and it’s safe to say it may not be the last time either.
For those who don’t have businesses to worry about, they took to making memes and trolls about the social media platforms having this major outage across the world. The problems were first reported a little before 4pm GMT (approx 9:30pm IST) since they all use shared infrastructure. Other apps in the same family like Facebook Workplace and Messenger also faced major troubles.
While WhatsApp wasn’t able to send messages quickly and was delaying texts with a long delay, the other apps just directly showed up a server error. Now let us tell you that such outages are a major deal because they’re losing trusted customers who will go to other social media platforms. It will then take months for them to gain the trust of these users back!
For more updates from around the world, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com…
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