WhatsApp Outage: Telegram Moved To Fifth Most Downloaded App From 56th
For WhatsApp rivals, Monday was a very good day as billions of internet users went ahead to download other apps as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook battled global outage that lasted seven hours.
According to specialist firm SensorTower, Telegram moved to fifth most downloaded app from 56th within the United States on Monday.
The messaging app tweeted that “millions” of new users had joined, and added that it was “Signal and ready to mignal.”
It was beyond Twitter users cracking jokes over the outage, a lot of people complained about being cut off from contacts, their sources of income or business tools.
Facebook experienced great crises Monday as billions of users were affected when its dominant social network crashed for seven hours, and the company battled against a whistleblower’s damning revelations.
As US senators prepared for their highly anticipated Tuesday testimony on some documents, Facebook went down in an outage that hit users across its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp.
According to tracker DownDetector, “Billions of users have been impacted by the services being entirely offline today”.
Facebook later apologized in a tweet on Monday evening, just as the apps began to work.
“We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now,” the company said.
Facebook blamed the outage on configuration changes it made to routers that controls network traffic between its data centers.
“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said in a post.
With the disruption to people, businesses and many others that depends on the company’s tools, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also took a financial hit.
