Why WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram services have fallen for hours – 14/03/2019

Periodically, the three main services belonging to Facebook (the social network itself, WhatsApp and Instagram) suffer cuts or falls. Wednesday's episodes are no exception to this rule, as there are problems all over the world. The social network, without giving too many explanations, has been slow to recognize these problems; although he specified that they were not the result of a hacker attack.

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The first detector to reveal these social networking and messaging platform related incidents was the Network Detector, where failures are reported in all types of online services by users around the world. hours in much of Argentina, approx.

The causes must certainly also be sought in the spectacular traffic that supports the servers of the three services. Do not forget that billions of people around the world are simultaneously using one of these services and even all three. Nor is it unreasonable to think that the failures could be related to the announced integration of the three services in a single platform.

Twitter, which in each of these events, becomes the main channel where some of the traffic and complaints are directed, when Facebook services fall, was full of protests during the hours of total or partial service interruption in different parts of the world network In fact, the topics #whatsappdown, #FacebookDown and #InstagramDown were the main topics (trending topics) that generated the most interactions in the world.

One of the curiosities that had the fall was that although in many cases you can access the three services, the truth is that these have given failures of different kinds. For example, some Instagram users stated that they could not post photos and that WhatsApp users were not able to send audios, videos and photos . But, as we say, the nature of the problems seems to have been very variable and was directly related to the affected countries.

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What has really bothered users is the lack of explanations from those responsible for these three services. WhatsApp, the most critical because of the intensive use that many make of the platform, for example, did not publish a single tweet at the time of the service outage. Even if, in the end, it is not so strange: opacity is one of the characteristics of this messaging service.

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(Source: The Vanguardia)