{"id":3089,"date":"2021-10-05T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/it-was-scary-at-first-social-media-users-on-the-facebook-outage\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:50:23","slug":"it-was-scary-at-first-social-media-users-on-the-facebook-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/it-was-scary-at-first-social-media-users-on-the-facebook-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was scary at first\u2019: social media users on the Facebook outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people tell how they were affected by temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/the-global-outage-just-adds-to-facebooks-many-recent-woes\">The global outage just adds to Facebook\u2019s many recent woes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/facebook-outage-what-went-wrong-and-why-did-it-take-so-long-to-fix\">an outage<\/a> that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was one of the worst Facebook has ever experienced, with the company blaming faulty configuration changes on its routers for the extended disruption.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/05\/scary-at-first-social-media-users-facebook-outage-whatsapp-instagram\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1bd6e7684c93f11c7d52f7f9690af8f3d53716e2\/0_116_4428_2656\/master\/4428.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=950a52d0529e11c0552d4e9015d8262f\" title=\"\u2018It was scary at first\u2019: social media users on the Facebook outage\" \/>Three people tell how they were affected by temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram<br \/>\nThe global outage just adds to Facebook\u2019s many recent woes<br \/>\nFacebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe outage was one of the worst Facebook has ever experienced, with the company blaming faulty configuration changes on its routers for the extended disruption. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people tell how they were affected by temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram The global outage just adds to Facebook\u2019s many recent woes Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/it-was-scary-at-first-social-media-users-on-the-facebook-outage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It was scary at first\u2019: social media users on the Facebook outage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}