WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and other popular sites & social media faces down time on march 13, 2019, in which panic a lot of its daily users .
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ccording to report from USA Today, the problem started around noon EST( Eastern Standard Time) on WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram across the world WhatsApp users reported experiencing problem sending Photos and Voice notes.As of 10:00 pm (EST) services had still not fully been restored, making one of the longest outages ever for all these social media giants.
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of
While Facebook the parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp has revealed what caused the problem, NETSCOUT firm principal engineer Roland Dobbins pointed to an accident traffic jam issue with a European internet company, which collided with Facebook and another website, as the culprit.
“while not malicious in nature, such events can prove disruptive on a widespread basis,” he said.
The outage comes less than a week after the US senator Elizabeth Warren revealed her plan to break up large tech firms like Facebook, Apple and Amazon.
“Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society and our democracy,” Warren wrote in a blog post, adding that “they’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.”
The CO-Founders of Instagram Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who believe that US senator proposal it too wide-sweeping has this to say.
“I think it’s [going to] take a more nuanced proposal,” Systrom said. “But my fear is that a proposal to break up all tech is playing on everyone’s current feeling of anti-tech, rather than doing what politicians should be doing, which is to address real problems and give real solutions.”