South Africans react to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outage
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were hit by a massive outage on Monday, impacting millions of users worldwide.
Facebook's reason for the outage was a βmajor outage across its platforms on configuration changes it made to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.β
According to AFP, Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said that "this disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt."
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South Africans took to Twitter to express how they feel about a little less contact with their contacts for hours on Monday evening.
Even Breakfast with Martin Besterβs Twitter page got involved!
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β JacaBreakfast (@JacaBreakfast) October 4, 2021
Thatβs it. 2021 has peaked. pic.twitter.com/Jof1u1JDhA
β Jo Lurie (@TheJoLurie) October 4, 2021
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β πππ ππππ (@stupiditynation) October 5, 2021
How did the outage affect you?
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