The massive global outage for hours halted three giant social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Organizations and people all across the globe who heavily rely on services of these platforms including Facebook’s own workforce faced a huge loss. According to the data, Zuckerberg suffered a 7 billion loss.
Facebook reported on late Monday that the company is working hard to restore access to its services and is “happy to report they are coming back online now." Also, the company apologized and thanked its users for their patience. However, fixing the glitches was not easy.
As per the users’ reviews for some users, WhatsApp was working for a while, then it was not. For others, Instagram was working but not Facebook, and so on.
Following the global outage, Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, "To every small and large business, family, and the individual who depends on us, I'm sorry, may take some time to get to 100%."
According to the Security experts, the disruption could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible. However, Facebook says "a faulty configuration change" was the main reason for Monday's hours-long global outage.
Soon after the global outage began, Facebook started acknowledging that the platform is facing some technical issues because users were not able to access its apps, and then Facebook started examining the same.
Facebook, the social media giant, also known as the second-largest digital advertising platform in the world, has faced a loss of around $545,000 in U.S. ad revenue per hour during the global shutdown, ad measurement firm Standard Media Index reported.
