Hyderabad:Social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered a massive global outage on Monday evening with users reporting that they were unable to send or receive messages through the applications. However, other social media platforms such as Signal, Twitter and Telegram had a gala time during Facebook's lengthy outage. They took a dig at the social media giant and used the situation to urge people to switch to their respective platforms.
Signal on Tuesday said millions of new people have joined the app. The digital messenger app took to Twitter and said, "millions of new people have joined Signal today and our messaging and calling have been up and running but some people aren't seeing all of their contacts appear on Signal. We're working hard to fix this up."
In an earlier tweet on Monday, Signal said, "signups are way up on Signal (welcome everyone!) We also know what it’s like to work through an outage, and wish the best for the engineers working on bringing back service on other platforms #mondays."
During the Facebook app's hours-long blackout, users took to Twitter to share their woes and upload memes. Twitter appeared to enjoy the moment as it tweeted "hello literally everyone".
However, the microblogging platform faced issues due to increased user engagement. Twitter's support handle said, "Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. We prepare for these moments, but today things didn’t go exactly as planned. Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result. This has been fixed. Sorry about that".
Similarly, the Encrypted messaging app Telegram also seemed to enjoy Facebook's six-hour outage as the company was seen making witty replies to users. "Come over, the servers are up and my parents aren't home," it replied to a user.
Downdetector, a site that monitors reports of outages across the internet, said the Facebook service outage is the largest it has ever seen. "The Facebook outage continues and has become the largest outage we've ever seen on Downdetector with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe," it said in a post on Monday.
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