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Re: WhatsApp Outage

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Post by radlad »

xyst wrote: post #17

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It's used for much more than that. I know many health care providers who use it for internal communication. (No need to lecture me - I'm not a health care provider, or a decision maker.)

Re: WhatsApp Outage

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Post by rsstack »

robofanatic wrote: post #12
avnfish wrote: post #6

Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?

https://metastatus.com/ Not sure if it officially belongs to Meta though

"Status and outages of Meta business products"

This is for their business products, not consumer "products" (where _we_ are the product). However, they tend to go down and up together, as they're tied to the same data and servers.

Re: WhatsApp Outage

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Post by jeffbee »

avnfish wrote: post #6

Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?

It's not a consumer products! It's a transformative business platform that helps enterprises of any size engage audiences, accelerate sales and drive better customer support outcomes on the platform with more than 2 billion users around the world!

Re: WhatsApp Outage

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Post by lenerdenator »

boredemployee wrote: post #20
xyst wrote: post #17

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In the end, what platform is free from scammers?

4chan.

Hear me out:

No sane person would accept business opportunities presented there as anything other than a scam. Since this keeps people from engaging with potential scams, scams cannot actually work as scams. Thus, scammers are relegated to simple sh*tposting.

Re: WhatsApp Outage

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Post by politelemon »

netsharc wrote: post #14

Curious that since it's the .in domain, the map just shows India. But if you replace it with .com, or .de, it will show the map of those countries (with .de it redirects to a German version of the domain). Someone said the other week that downdetector just monitors how many people check their site for outages, and if in a five minute time period 20000 people are looking at them to see if WhatsApp is down... then, tha…

I wonder if that behaviour could be engineered to fake an outage, though I'm unsure as to what end.
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