The six-hour outage of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was a headache for casual users. But the outage was far more serious for many people who rely on the social media sites to communicate with relatives, friends and neighbors and run their businesses.
WhatsApp has become essential in Brazil to communicate between friends and families, as well as for a variety of other tasks, such as ordering food. Offices, various services and even the courts had trouble making appointments, and phone lines became overwhelmed.Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in their homeland and abroad fretted over the WhatsApp outage.
He said he was concerned about her safety since they were unable to communicate for seven hours as Haiti struggles with a spike in gang violence.In rebel-held Syria, where the telecommunication infrastructure has been disrupted by war, residents and emergency workers rely mostly on internet communication.
“Sometimes the doctor will be working on a patient and I need to contact a technician for job,” she said. “To have to step away and make a phone call? It trips us up. We’ve become so accustomed to this tool.” “It’s amazing just how little folks understand the impact of three or four content companies on the utility of the Internet,” Tinka said.
“I’ve tried other platforms because I am wary of Facebook, but none of them are as powerful for the type of content I create,” Murdoch said. As for her losses, “it may only be a few people, but we are small enough that it hurts.”
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