WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram shut down for 6 hours, Rs 5.16 lakh crore loss

Yesterday, the most popular social media platforms in the world, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, were severely disrupted. The services of the three organisations were suspended for several hours. Since 9 p.m., there has been unrest in India. WhatsApp users were unable to send or receive messages. When I opened Facebook, I saw the message “Error Page.” Instagram4 was also inoperable. Although Facebook has not released any official information about the cause of the outage, it is believed that the issue arose when the company changed its internal router. The engineering team at Facebook had to work extremely hard to regain control of the situation. Six hours later, things began to return to normal.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has paid a high price for the disruption. He has lost $ 400 crore as the company’s share price has fallen. It is estimated to be Rs 5.16 lakh crore in Indian currency. He has dropped from third to fifth place on the list of the world’s wealthiest individuals. In terms of advertising, Facebook has also suffered greatly. As the issue remained unresolved for an extended period of time, many advertisers withdrew their ads. Zuberberg has apologised for the disruption in the three companies’ services. WhatsApp has also issued an apology to its users. The engineering team at Facebook has also apologised to users for disrupting the service.