By the way, many such news related to employees and organizations keep adorning the social media, but there are some that become the interest of everyone, something like this happened with ‘X’ ex-employee of Twitter.
X’s ex-employee, who held a senior position and served as a senior officer, has now been hired by Meta, a Facebook company.
In 2022, a photo went viral of former X employee Esther Crawford sleeping on the floor of Twitter’s (X) office following she was fired by the company in March last year.
However, a year later, Crawford has been hired by Meta as director of product at Instagram.
By Le Figaro with Reuters
Published on 04/03/2024 at 9:43 p.m.
Around 12,000 US users have reported issues with the messaging platform. tashatuvango / stock.adobe.com
More than 20,000 users in India, around 46,000 in the UK and more than 42,000 in Brazil have reported issues with the platform.
WhatsApp, the messaging application owned by Meta, suffered an outage on Wednesday, April 3, according to the website Downdetector.com. This results in an inability to send messages, but also to receive them. Calls are also impossible.
About 12,000 U.S. users have reported issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by gathering status reports from a number of sources, including errors reported by users on its platform.
Global outage
More than 20,000 users in India, around 46,000 in the UK and more than 42,000 in Brazil have also reported issues with the platform, according to Downdetector data. Around 4,800 people also experienced issues with Instagram in the United States, according to Downdetector.
While the various services gradually become available once more, Whatsapp has indicated on “some people face problems” and promises to work “100%” to the complete recovery of the platform.
Last month, hundreds of thousands of users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram sites were affected for more than two hours following an outage caused by a technical problem.
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Meta says its Facebook and Instagram services have been restored, following more than half a million users reported widespread issues earlier in the day, with many saying they were booted out of the social media platforms and unable to log back in.
DownDetector, a site that monitors internet service outages, on Tuesday said it received more than 500,000 reports of problems by U.S. Facebook users and more than 70,000 reported problems with Instagram as of regarding 10:30 a.m. ET. The most frequently reported problems were with logging into the Facebook app and issues with the Instagram app, according to DownDetector.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” a Meta Spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Facebook users from across the globe reported that they were unable to log in to the service, ranging from Egypt to Oklahoma, according to DownDetector. Some people on social media expressed concern that their accounts had been hacked because they had been booted out of the service and were unable to get back in with their passwords.
Meta Quest’s artificial reality headsets were also signed out, according to tech site 9to5Mac. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected.
The issue represented a “major outage incident,” wrote NetBlocks director of research Isik Mater on X during the service interruption. “[E]ven the company’s official status page is currently showing status ‘Unknown’ across the board.”
Amidst an ongoing disruption to Meta services, even the company’s official status page is currently showing status “Unknown” across the board. Major outage incident. #Metadown pic.twitter.com/9GrOICiIpl
— Isik Mater (@isik5) March 5, 2024
A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyberactivity nexus to the outage.”
The outage came just ahead of Thursday’s deadline for large technology companies to fall in line with the European Union’s new Digital Markets Act. To comply, Meta is making changes, like allowing users to separate their Facebook and Instagram accounts so personal information can’t be combined to target them with online ads. It’s not clear whether the outage is connected to any preparations Meta might be implementing to adhere to the law.
Facebook has more than 2 billion daily active users worldwide, according to Meta.
—With reporting by the Associated Press.
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