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“They don't know how to contact the people in their lives without it,” she said. So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as primary modes of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security. “It's also a huge awakening that social media controls so much of my success in business.” “The outage today is frustrating financially,” he said. He said he tends to sell about two hand-knit pieces after posting a product photo for about $300 to $400. He posted a product photo about an hour before Instagram went out. News agency AP, quoted Kendall Ross, who is the owner of a knitwear brand called Knit That in Oklahoma City, as saying that he has 32,000 followers on his Instagram business page Almost all of his website traffic comes directly from Instagram. There were reports that employees at work on the company's Menlo Park, California, campus had trouble entering buildings because the outage had rendered their security badges useless.īut the impact was far worse for multitudes of Facebook's nearly 3 billion users, showing just how much the world has come to rely on it and its properties - to run businesses, connect with online communities, log on to multiple other websites and even order food. This made it impossible to do things at every level, eve entering the office building. What exacerbated the problem was the fact that Facebook's internal systems too had gone down. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Security experts said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible. The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees said.
Several Facebook employees who declined to be named said that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in how internet traffic is routed to its systems. Instagram, which too had gone down, tweeted this, “Instagram is slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait!” We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share." We're starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again. WhatsApp tweeted this to its users, “Apologies to everyone who hasn't been able to use WhatsApp today.
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