After the global downfall, two Facebook executives resign

The flaw comes in a storm at the heart of the internet giant, which compounded Thursday with the announcement of the company's departure from two executives, Facebook's product manager, Chris Cox, and the director of WhatsApp, Chris Daniels

Cox said on his Faebook page that he was leaving the company with "great sadness" after 13 years.

Although he did not explain why he was saying goodbye, the former director said that the network's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, had defined a new strategy to move from "the digital village square." "to a focus on private interactions on a smaller scale. .

On Daniels, Zuckerberg said that "this allowed to define the business model for the courier service in order to progress," Zuckerberg said.

The Facebook official announced that the new director of WhatsApp would be Fiji Simo, previously responsible for videos, games and monetization of the company.

– This is not a cyber attack "DDos" –

"You should look in the mirror and listen to how they sound," writes Johanna in Downdetector. "They give the impression that it's the end of the world because they can not be on Facebook, you have to have a real life rather than digital!"

"It works here … for now … But I'm planning a baby boom in 9 months, remember the day FB fell and people were forced to pay attention to each other? " Pleasing, another registered user with the name Palmina D & # 39; Allesandro.

On Twitter, there were plenty of hashtags #facebookdown or #instagramdown, which read messages between plaintiffs and irony.

Shortly after the first complaints were reported, Facebook stated that the failure was not related to a "DDos" cyber attack, that is, a "denial of service attack", which occurs when servers are overwhelmed by an avalanche of unmanageable requests. of connections.

In November of last year, Facebook had suffered a fall attributed to a server problem, while another in September was supposed to be due to "network problems".

The absence of Facebook, meanwhile, has been beneficial for social network competitors such as Twitter or the Telegram messaging service, which, according to its founder, Pavel Durov, has won 3 million users at last 24 hours.