Sunday, 23 February 2014

Facebook's big buy back up after outage


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Washington - WhatsApp, the chop-chop increasing mobile electronic communication app, suffered associate outage for quite 3 hours on Saturday, frustrating users simply days once its acquisition by Facebook for $19 billion.

“WhatsApp service has been fixed up. we have a tendency to square measure therefore compassionate the period...,” WhatsApp tweeted to its quite one million Twitter followers on Saturday.

Earlier, the service had aforementioned it had been “experiencing server issues” while not providing additional details. Facebook referred queries on the outage to WhatsApp representatives, United Nations agency failed to instantly respond.

Five-year-old WhatsApp presently has concerning 450 million users globally and has been adding 1,000,000 users daily.

On Saturday, a number of those users took to different styles of social media, as well as blogs and Twitter to report the outage and vent their frustration.

WhatsApp is that the leader among a wave of smartphone-based electronic communication apps that square measure currently sweeping across North America, Asia and Europe, and is thought to charm to teens et al United Nations agency avoid thought social networks.

During the outage the thrill on Twitter ranged from the plot - that Facebook had extremely bought WhatsApp to shut it down and funnel users to Facebook Chat - to the philosophical.

“So currently that #Whatsapp is not operating I've truly talked to my family, they appear like nice individuals,” tweeted @Ali_Hilu, a self-described social media addict in Jordan.

And @Iamhollybrown of Surrey, England, scolded, “Can't believe of these individuals square measure crying concerning Whatsapp not operating, do some exercise, do some work, learn a language.” - Reuters

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