He also was not able to reach his colleagues, friends and family via Facebook Messenger for hours.
Government offices, companies and schools in the Philippines use Facebook's infrastructure as a central hub for nearly all information sharing, Mendoza said, so the outage was a"big deal" for people trying to look for information online as the outage was happening. More than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp, while Facebook has more than 3 billion users worldwide, according to WhatsApp and Facebook. Ashowed that in countries like Kenya, Argentina, Malaysia, Colombia and Brazil, more than 90 percent of those 16 to 54 used WhatsApp.
What outage? Not on any of those, so they can stay down, for all I care.
Shut Facebook down!!!!!!!!!!!
The timing of these outages too wildly jive with the timing of news of their wrong-doing. I can believe they did it on purpose.
It should not be like this. Facebook is not living up to the responsibility and accountability it built up for itself.
If a government solely operates on Facebook we have major problems.
morgfair And the last part of this tweet is exactly the problem! Facebook is necessary for basic functioning of governments. Yikes. 🤦🏿♂️
morgfair Yep. Just like Stonekettle said yesterday. For some it’s more than a stupid time waster.