Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were out of service for 6h on Oct. 4th, 2021. What service outage on a worldwide scale meant to millions of people around the world?
Here’s the YouTube video on the Facebook outage and who was affected by it:
(in case you don’t see the above video, here’s the link – click here)
Resources:
- Facebook update (click here)
- New York Times “Facebook Down” (click here)
- Digital Trends – “What is WhatsApp” (click here)
- Hootsuite – “WhatsApp Marketing” (click here)
- PC Mag – “Facebook Outage Was No Laughing Matter Outside the US” (click here)
- Technology Review – “Facebook Global Outage” (click here)
- Global Media – “The Rise and Fal and Rise Again of Facebook Free Basics” (click here)
- Global Citizen – “Facebook Outage in Developing Countries” (click here)
- The Guardian – “Big Brother Is Still Watching You and He Goes By The Name Facebook” (click here)
- Facebook – “Discover” (click here)
- Facebook Developers – “Free Basics Platform” (click here)
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News – “Facebook Down: What the Outage Meant for the Developing Wolrd” (click here)
- Engadget – “Facebook’s Discover App is a New Take on Its Free Basics Internet Service” (click here)
- Engadget – “Study Finds Facebook’s Free Data App Favored Its Own Services” (click here)
- Rest of World – “How Facebook Discover Replicated Many of Free Basics’ Mistakes” (click here)
