Users around the world have been affected this year. July 3 for a glitch in several famous applications. It turned out to be a lousy day for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook with its interruption for several hours.
Immediately, users were positioning in the global trends of Twitter (trending topic) the #FacebookDown and #WhatsApp and Facebook and Instagram.
This problem prevented users on all three platforms from could upload or download audios, images and videos. In this way, the failure affected users in the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, apart from Europe and Oceania. According to data reported by the websites that measure Internet activity such as Outage Report and Downdetector..
What was the flaw with WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook?
Since the three applications are from the same company, it is presumed that was a server failure. Although Facebook indicated that it was aware of the problem and that he was resolving to get things back to normal.
In addition, they also mentioned that they themselves had caused the hiccup in a frequent activity “During one of our maintenance operations, we have triggered an issue that is making it difficult for some users to upload or send photos and videos.”
On the other hand, specified that the failure was not due to a denial of service (DDoS) cyber-attack.. A situation that occurs when the avalanche in the demand for connections is unmanageable by the processors.
Map of the countries affected by the flaw in the WhatsApp application. | Image Downdetector
In WhatsApp Only the function of sending and receiving messages could be used; photos, videos and audios could not be uploaded or downloaded. Meanwhile, in Instagram The problems were when accessing the mobile application and updating new content. Regarding Facebook, private messaging was the most affected. It is worth mentioning that in the names of the three applications there is a link to the world maps where the countries with problems are displayed.
Twelve hours after the start of the outage, application functions were being restored., for normal use. It should be noted that this is the third time that any of these applications have been affected in the last four months.
Tell us, were you affected by this failure and did you manage to publish any information during this period of time without any problem?
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