FB suffers 24-hour outage worldwide
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
15.03.2019 TOI
In one of the biggest cases of outage, Facebook was down for about 24 hours across the world between Wednesday and Thursday. At the time of the filing of this report, the website had been restored in many parts of the world. On a live outage chart put out by a technology website, India looked alright but not entirely unaffected.
Facebook subsidiaries — Instagram and WhatsApp — also also experienced interruptions across the world. The outage led to a flurry of memes on Twitter with #FacebookDown, #WhatsAppDown and #InstagramBlackout2019 trending for several hours.
Facebook confirmed the prolonged disruption. The company also said it was considering whether to refund advertisers for lost exposure due to the problems, which internet outage trackers showed affected users in Europe, Japan, North and South America. “Yesterday, a server configuration issue made it difficult for people to access our apps and services. We are 100% back up and running and apologise for any inconvenience,” an FB spokesperson said. FB takes tens of millions of dollars of advertising revenue every day.
According to downdetector.com, a Dutch company which “detects technology failures” real-time, showed the number of people affected by the outage spiked to 12,000 people around 6am, but then reduced considerably in the next 12 hours. At 6pm, number of malfunction reports from users had come down to 196. For Instagram, too, the worst impacted hour was between 6-7am, when 30,000 people reported that the site was down. Around 10am, the platform tweeted a meme featuring Oprah Winfrey and wrote: “Anddddd... we’re back.”A real-time tracking by downdetector.com, however, showed 282 reports of malfunction by users at 6pm, eight hours after Instagram had tweeted that its services were restored. A Twitter user posted: “Hey everyone! While #Instagramdown and #FacebookDown, I just found a new social app. It’s called “outside”.
With inputs from agencies
Facebook subsidiaries — Instagram and WhatsApp — also experienced interruptions across the world
FB data deals under criminal probe in US
Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest tech companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant’s business practices. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices, according to two people familiar with the requests. The firms were among more than 150, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Sony, that had cut sharing deals with the world’s dominant social media platform. The agreements let the companies see users’ friends, contact information and other data, sometimes without consent. FB has phased out most of the partnerships. “We are cooperating with investigators,” an FB spokesman said. NYT
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
15.03.2019 TOI
In one of the biggest cases of outage, Facebook was down for about 24 hours across the world between Wednesday and Thursday. At the time of the filing of this report, the website had been restored in many parts of the world. On a live outage chart put out by a technology website, India looked alright but not entirely unaffected.
Facebook subsidiaries — Instagram and WhatsApp — also also experienced interruptions across the world. The outage led to a flurry of memes on Twitter with #FacebookDown, #WhatsAppDown and #InstagramBlackout2019 trending for several hours.
Facebook confirmed the prolonged disruption. The company also said it was considering whether to refund advertisers for lost exposure due to the problems, which internet outage trackers showed affected users in Europe, Japan, North and South America. “Yesterday, a server configuration issue made it difficult for people to access our apps and services. We are 100% back up and running and apologise for any inconvenience,” an FB spokesperson said. FB takes tens of millions of dollars of advertising revenue every day.
According to downdetector.com, a Dutch company which “detects technology failures” real-time, showed the number of people affected by the outage spiked to 12,000 people around 6am, but then reduced considerably in the next 12 hours. At 6pm, number of malfunction reports from users had come down to 196. For Instagram, too, the worst impacted hour was between 6-7am, when 30,000 people reported that the site was down. Around 10am, the platform tweeted a meme featuring Oprah Winfrey and wrote: “Anddddd... we’re back.”A real-time tracking by downdetector.com, however, showed 282 reports of malfunction by users at 6pm, eight hours after Instagram had tweeted that its services were restored. A Twitter user posted: “Hey everyone! While #Instagramdown and #FacebookDown, I just found a new social app. It’s called “outside”.
With inputs from agencies
Facebook subsidiaries — Instagram and WhatsApp — also experienced interruptions across the world
FB data deals under criminal probe in US
Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest tech companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant’s business practices. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices, according to two people familiar with the requests. The firms were among more than 150, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Sony, that had cut sharing deals with the world’s dominant social media platform. The agreements let the companies see users’ friends, contact information and other data, sometimes without consent. FB has phased out most of the partnerships. “We are cooperating with investigators,” an FB spokesman said. NYT
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