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Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

fowlie wrote: post #14
bitcharmer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Is messenger your only option? I personally don't use Messenger but there's still WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.

How many people can you reach with WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger? How many people can you reach with SMS? Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2365

In India, WhatsApp is the gateway to Internet for millions as many of its users wouldn't have ever opened a browser or received an email.

WhatsApp new version updates gets prime time News spot in even prominent, respected News channel.

Social structures are being built on WhatsApp here, Relatives get offended when you don't join their WhatsApp groups, people don't believe when you say that you don't use WhatsApp, Package disptach details from eCommerce arrive through WhatsApp(no permissions asked) and of course spam arrives through WhatsApp(Local shops wish for your birthday because you signed up for that damn discount card 10 years ago).

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by Stubb »

mantap wrote: post #24
fowlie wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many people can you reach with WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger? How many people can you reach with SMS? Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2365

A lot more than with SMS. You can send someone an SMS but they are not going to respond because either they cost money or they have some tiny allowance of them.

Or they know that responding via SMS only encourages the use of a messaging system whose time has past.

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Post by thorin »

LeonM wrote: post #15
fowlie wrote: post #14

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How many people can you reach with WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger? How many people can you reach with SMS? Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2365

In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here. Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest of Europe was the same. I guess this proves that assumption is the mother of all failures.

I'd say >50% of smartphone users have Whatsapp in the UK and >50% of smartphone users have FB messenger, of course quite a few have both. I prefer Whatsapp, but contacting a small or large business like a pub or takeaway often works surprisingly well with FB.

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by bilekas »

florianmari wrote: post #25

It's not only Facebook, a lot of services, Deezer, some operators in France... https://downdetector.fr/

OVH Also having a lot of trouble today .. http://weathermap.ovh.net/ Its a large hosting provider in EU at least.. Not sure the knock on effect.
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