![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But once things started to improve, he made his first FB post about the matter. The site was down, so Zuckerberg couldn’t speak to FB users on the platform. Actually, its been a rough set of weeks for Zuckerberg recently, who over the last few weeks has seen his fortune drop from US$141 million to less than US$120 million. , and fortunately he still has $100 billion on so to fall back on. The share price of FB fell by five percent during the outage, from a total value of about US$967 billion on Friday down to US$916 billion by Monday evening.Īnd poor FB founder Mark Zuckerberg was said to have lost US$4 billion or even as much as US$7 billion in his wealth in just a few hours. The outage might have been good news for alternate social media sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn which don’t fall under the Facebook umbrella – and will have reminded people that FB, IG and Whatsapp are all part of one group, and that maybe it’s a good idea to also use other providers. The three sites went down at about 4:00 pm GMT and didn’t return until 10:00 pm that night. Businesses which communicate with their customers using these social media platforms could also have been hit. The three social media companies are all owned by Facebook and have billions of users – people posting pics of themselves enjoying wonderful lives, jokes, topical memes, opinions or as a method of communication.īut the outage also affected several sites that have a sign-in linked to Facebook accounts – meaning that the number of people affected was even wider than only direct users. It wasn’t the end of times, but it may have been a dress rehearsal, when not just Facebook, but Instagram and Whatsapp as well, all went down for six hours yesterday across the globe. ![]()
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