Netizens around the world expressed outrage after microblogging site Twitter suffered a global outage. The social media site reported a software glitch on Friday resulting in disrupted services for thousands across the world.

Twitter apologizes to users for outages across the globe

Several users could not avail many services of Amazon due to an outage on Tuesday. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Amazon’s website, Prime Video and other applications, which use Amazon Web Services (AWS), were hit due to issues related to application programming interface (API). API is a set of protocols used for building and integrating application software, Amazon said as per a Reuters report. &nbsp;

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On its service health dashboard, Amazon, said, “We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 region.” In the report, it added that the issue has been identified and action was being taken to fix it. &nbsp;

According to the company, it was working on a number of different “mitigation and resolution actions” and could not give an estimated time by when the services will be completely back online. &nbsp;

Over 24,000 incidents of issues with Amazon were reported by people, showed Downdetector. The website is known to track outages as it collects reports from several sources. &nbsp;

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Duolingo, Tinder and Internet Movie Database (IMDb) were affected by this outage as per Downdetector. &nbsp;&nbsp;

The outage also led to issues in delivery operations, mobile banking app Chime, Amazon’s Ring security cameras and robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot, as per sources. &nbsp;

On its website, iRobot, said, “A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is currently impacting our iRobot Home App.” &nbsp;&nbsp;

(With inputs from agencies)&nbsp;

Several users could not avail many services of Amazon due to an outage on Tuesday. Amazon’s website, Prime Video and other applications, which use Amazon Web Services (AWS), were hit due to issues related to application programming interface (API).

Several users could not avail many services of Amazon due to an outage on Tuesday. Amazon’s website, Prime Video and other applications, which use Amazon Web Services (AWS), were hit due to issues related to application programming interface (API). API is a set of protocols used for building and integrating application software, Amazon said as per a Reuters report. Also Read: Sony’s PlayStation executive appears in pedophile sting video, gets axed On its service health dashboard, Amazon, said, “We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 region.” In the report, it added that the issue has been identified and action was being taken to fix it. According to the company, it was working on a number of different “mitigation and resolution actions” and could not give an estimated time by when the services will be completely back online. Over 24,000 incidents of issues with Amazon were reported by people, showed Downdetector. The website is known to track outages as it collects reports from several sources. Also Read: Man of his word? Musk again fulfils promise, ‘owns no home’ in US state now Duolingo, Tinder and Internet Movie Database (IMDb) were affected by this outage as per Downdetector. The outage also led to issues in delivery operations, mobile banking app Chime, Amazon’s Ring security cameras and robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot, as per sources. On its website, iRobot, said, “A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is currently impacting our iRobot Home App.” (With inputs from agencies)

Server error? Outage hits Amazon Web Services users hard as Prime Video, Duolingo, Tinder face issues  

Days after one of the longest outages in Facebook's history, the social media platform, and its sister apps experienced another service interruption on Friday. According to reports, some users were unable to load their Instagram feeds, while others were not able to send messages via Facebook messenger. Web monitoring group down-detector showed that there were more than 36,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram on Friday. While another 800 issues were reported on Facebook's messaging app.

Facebook experiences another service interruption

Facebook said on Tuesday (Indian time) that the major outage of its main social media app along with WhatsApp and Instagram was caused due to&nbsp;configuration changes it made to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp started working again late on Monday after an outage that lasted nearly six-hours. This prevented the company`s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services.

Facebook apologized but did not immediately explain what caused the failure, the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. Facebook claimed that there was no evidence that user data was compromised.

The outage was a second blow to social media giant Facebook after a whistleblower on Sunday alleged that Facebook had repeatedly prioritise profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.

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As the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9%, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday. Shares rose about half a percent in after-hours trade following resumption of service.

"To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I`m sorry," Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it "may take some time to get to 100%."

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. 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.

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Security experts said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible.

"Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard`s Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society.

Twitter on Monday reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing posts and direct messages.

In one of the day`s most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show "Squid Game" captioned "When Instagram &amp; Facebook are down," that showed a person labeled "Twitter" holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled "everyone."

(With inputs from agencies)

Facebook said on Tuesday (Indian time) that the major outage of its main social media app along with WhatsApp and Instagram was caused due to configuration changes it made to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.

Facebook said on Tuesday (Indian time) that the major outage of its main social media app along with WhatsApp and Instagram was caused due to configuration changes it made to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers. Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp started working again late on Monday after an outage that lasted nearly six-hours. This prevented the company`s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services. Facebook apologized but did not immediately explain what caused the failure, the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. Facebook claimed that there was no evidence that user data was compromised. The outage was a second blow to social media giant Facebook after a whistleblower on Sunday alleged that Facebook had repeatedly prioritise profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. Also Read | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp services down for users As the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9%, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday. Shares rose about half a percent in after-hours trade following resumption of service. "To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I`m sorry," Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it "may take some time to get to 100%." 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. 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. Also Read | Hate speech for profit: Facebook whistleblower reveals identity Security experts said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard`s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Twitter on Monday reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing posts and direct messages. In one of the day`s most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show "Squid Game" captioned "When Instagram & Facebook are down," that showed a person labeled "Twitter" holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled "everyone." (With inputs from agencies)

Router was bad, says Facebook after FB, Instagram, WhatsApp go down

After a whistleblower came out and outages brought Facebook Inc.'s key programmes down, Mark Zuckerberg's personal worth dropped by over $7 billion in a matter of hours, pushing him down a rung on the list of the world's richest individuals.

The stock of the social media behemoth fell over 5% on Monday, bringing its total loss to nearly 15% since mid-September.

The stock market decline on Monday reduced Zuckerberg's net worth to $120.9 billion, putting him behind Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index at No. 5. 
 
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According to the index, he has lost over $19 billion in value since September&nbsp;13, when he was worth nearly $140 billion.&nbsp;

The Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of stories on September 13 based on a cache of internal documents.

Revealing that Facebook was aware of a wide range of problems with its products — including Instagram's negative impact on teenage girls' mental health and misinformation about the January 6 Capitol riots — while downplaying the issues in public.

The reports drew the attention of government authorities, and the whistleblower came forward on Monday.&nbsp; 
 
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From a revenue standpoint, the downtime will be costly for Facebook.

Advertising revenues are thought to bring in approximately US$330 million every day for the firm, and the blackout has rendered this aspect of the business entirely inoperable.&nbsp;

$50 billion wiped off Facebook's market capitalisation after global outage

As a result of a global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, Facebook's market capitalization dropped by approximately $50 billion.

According to Fortune, Facebook lost $99.75 million in income during the downtime on Monday, which lasted for more than six hours.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, saw his net worth plummet by more than $6 billion.&nbsp;

(With inputs from agencies)

After a whistleblower came out and outages brought Facebook Inc.'s key programmes down, Mark Zuckerberg's personal worth dropped by over $7 billion in a matter of hours, pushing him down a rung on the list of the world's richest individuals.

After a whistleblower came out and outages brought Facebook Inc.'s key programmes down, Mark Zuckerberg's personal worth dropped by over $7 billion in a matter of hours, pushing him down a rung on the list of the world's richest individuals. The stock of the social media behemoth fell over 5% on Monday, bringing its total loss to nearly 15% since mid-September. The stock market decline on Monday reduced Zuckerberg's net worth to $120.9 billion, putting him behind Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index at No. 5. Also read | Facebook outage: Mark Zuckerberg apologises, users have fun commenting According to the index, he has lost over $19 billion in value since September 13, when he was worth nearly $140 billion. The Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of stories on September 13 based on a cache of internal documents. Revealing that Facebook was aware of a wide range of problems with its products — including Instagram's negative impact on teenage girls' mental health and misinformation about the January 6 Capitol riots — while downplaying the issues in public. The reports drew the attention of government authorities, and the whistleblower came forward on Monday. Also Read | Router was bad, says Facebook after FB, Instagram, WhatsApp go down From a revenue standpoint, the downtime will be costly for Facebook. Advertising revenues are thought to bring in approximately US$330 million every day for the firm, and the blackout has rendered this aspect of the business entirely inoperable. $50 billion wiped off Facebook's market capitalisation after global outage As a result of a global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, Facebook's market capitalization dropped by approximately $50 billion. According to Fortune, Facebook lost $99.75 million in income during the downtime on Monday, which lasted for more than six hours. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, saw his net worth plummet by more than $6 billion. (With inputs from agencies)

Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 billion in hours as Facebook plunges

Facebook social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday.

As per the website Downdetector, which monitor global outages, there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its peak, but that figure dropped to about 2,000 reports.

Facebook experienced one of its longest outages in March when some users around the globe faced trouble accessing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours.

The outage monitoring website also showed that at the peak on Sunday, there were more than 3,000 incidents of people reporting issues with WhatsApp and 7,000 with Instagram.

The website's live outage map showed that the issues were mainly in Europe and Asia.

Users took to Twitter to complain about the outage, tweeting jokes and comments using&nbsp;the #facebookdown, #whatsappdown and #instagramdown hashtags.

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Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Facebook social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday. As per the website Downdetector, which monitor global outages, there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its peak, but that figure dropped to about 2,000 reports.

Facebook social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday. As per the website Downdetector, which monitor global outages, there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its peak, but that figure dropped to about 2,000 reports. Facebook experienced one of its longest outages in March when some users around the globe faced trouble accessing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours. The outage monitoring website also showed that at the peak on Sunday, there were more than 3,000 incidents of people reporting issues with WhatsApp and 7,000 with Instagram. The website's live outage map showed that the issues were mainly in Europe and Asia. Users took to Twitter to complain about the outage, tweeting jokes and comments using the #facebookdown, #whatsappdown and #instagramdown hashtags. #facebook #instagram and #whatsapp are both down so I guess I have to socialize with my friends now — Danny Muscat (@Danny_muscat) April 14, 2019 × Last man standing #WhatsappDown #FacebookDown #instagramDown pic.twitter.com/RaSVUEeyYp — Hitsodokotela (@hillaryhitso) April 14, 2019 × #whatsappdown#InstagramDown#FacebookDown Those who don't use twitter, Right now: pic.twitter.com/ZFeBfI391z — Zia Ullah Jan (@ZiaUllah52552) April 14, 2019 × Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outages; users fume on Twitter

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