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What happens when telcos' DNS server is down Internet outages in India on June 18 affected over 45,000 Reliance Jio users and 9,000 Bharti Airtel users due to DNS server downtime, impacting popular applications like WhatsApp and Facebook.
24 Jun, 2024, 09.07 AM ISTThe virtual world of social communications: Surviving mega-Meta-meltdown Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads) faced a global outage causing inconvenience to users. The incident revealed flaws in Meta's communication system and had a significant financial impact. It also raised concerns about Meta's re...
06 Mar, 2024, 11.12 PM ISTFacebook & Instagram suffer massive outage; issue seems to be resolved Meta's Facebook, and Instagram have experienced outages in India, with nearly 15,381 people reporting Facebook outage and over 19,200 on Instagram. Meta Communications Director Andy Stone confirmed the company is working on the issue.
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Instagram down for users globally Photo and video-sharing app Instagram is down for users globally. The reason behind the outage has not yet been ascertained.
12 Sep, 2023, 12.08 PM ISTWhy Meta's Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet In less than 24 hours, Threads attracted some 30 million users. And with Meta already having more than two billion Instagram users who can directly link their accounts to it, Threads’ user base will grow fast.
07 Jul, 2023, 10.33 AM ISTThe cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens Rights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the population, building what some call a "cyber gulag" - a dark reference to the labor camps that held political prisoners...
23 May, 2023, 12.38 PM ISTThe future of social media is a lot less social Social media is, in many ways, becoming less social. The kinds of posts where people update friends and family about their lives have become harder to see over the years as the biggest sites have become increasingly "corporatised."
20 Apr, 2023, 10.56 PM ISTInstagram Down: Memes keep Twitter engaged after IG experiences worldwide outage Meta’s Instagram suffered an unexplained outage where the users experienced server issues and were unable to log in.
09 Mar, 2023, 11.44 AM ISTInstagram down: several users in India report outage The outage began Wednesday morning, locking users out of the app, according to Downdetector, an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services.
12 Jan, 2023, 04.01 PM ISTMeta takes down spyware network run by Indian company CyberRoot Risk Advisory During its investigations into threats present across its platforms, Meta said it had discovered that CyberRoot Risk Advisory had a network of more than 40 accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which it used to lure users from across the globe into ph...
16 Dec, 2022, 06.11 AM ISTGovernment asks Meta to explain WhatsApp outage The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) wants to know if WhatsApp's outage was due to an internal glitch or a cyberattack.
26 Oct, 2022, 11.05 PM ISTWhatsApp services resume after messaging app's longest outage hits users across the globe WhatsApp outage affected people in different parts of the world, including the UK, and other parts of Europe.
25 Oct, 2022, 10.42 PM ISTInstagram is back online following 2-hour outage and Twitter memefest According to a report, nearly 19,000 users were having trouble accessing Instagram.
23 Sep, 2022, 12.50 PM ISTInstagram disrupted across Iran amid protests NetBlocks, a London-based group that monitors internet access, reported widespread disruptions.
21 Sep, 2022, 09.19 PM ISTPlike X Vlike + Pcomment: This TikTok equation keeps users hooked to videos A recent report demonstrated how TikTok relies on your time spent on each video to steer you toward more videos that will keep you scrolling, and that process can sometimes lead viewers down dangerous rabbit holes, toward content that promotes suici...
06 Dec, 2021, 10.39 AM ISTInstagram's new feature will alert users of Facebook server outage The new feature will notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app.
12 Oct, 2021, 01.02 PM ISTThe Facebook outage: What exactly happened? While Facebook attributed the six-hour-long outage to faulty configuration changes at its servers, researchers have cited issues relating to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as the reason for the downtime.
06 Oct, 2021, 10.01 AM ISTIndia’s first non-veg unicorn; Facebook outage explained Licious has raised $52 million in a funding round led by IIFL Asset Management's private equity fund at a valuation of just over $1 billion. This makes it the first direct-to-customer company and the first meat delivery startup in India to join the ...
05 Oct, 2021, 07.47 PM ISTFacebook, Instagram & WhatsApp outrage: Cyber experts think the shutdown was caused by BGP. What it means It's a system the internet uses to pick the quickest route to move packets of information around.
05 Oct, 2021, 05.46 PM ISTGone in minutes, out for hours: How Facebook outage crippled daily lives of billions The outage lasted more than five hours, before some apps slowly flickered back to life, though the company cautioned the services would take time to stabilize.
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