WhatsApp Down? Telegram laughs, and a lot!
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered a global blackout that lasted over six hours on Monday evening, then repeated on Friday on a smaller scale. During this hiatus, one of Whatsapp's biggest rivals, Telegram, saw 70 million new users sign up over the span of 6-7 hours.
The assessment of Facebook's losses for these misunderstandings was six billion dollars, but this figure is likely to increase when users switched to telegram will no longer use the promotional tools of the Manlo Park giant.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov broke the news of the new Telegram users with a satisfied message. “I am proud of how our team has managed unprecedented growth because Telegram has continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users. That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speeds than usual as millions of users from these continents rushed to subscribe to Telegram at the same time, ”Durov wrote on his Telegram channel. After all, such a high influx of new users, all together, was not expected.
Facebook then explained the outage as follows: “Our engineering teams learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused problems that disrupted communications. This disruption of network traffic has had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, blocking all of our services. " However, this also demonstrated the great fragility of a giant that did not test an upgrade in advance and that did not have an internal theme ready to intervene, forcing the technicians to skip the gates because even the access badges did not work. An incredible situation for a company valued at billions of dollars.
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