The world's largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal detailing how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, especially around body image. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger went down for users around the world for more than five hours on Monday in a catastrophic outage that is understood to have been caused by a. The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health.įrances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest - but said in an interview with CBS news show "60 Minutes" that Facebook was "substantially worse" than anything she had seen before. Meanwhile, the company's market value has soared from USD 375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly $1 trillion now.
WhatsApp is the most popular platform used in the country, with over 90 million users, according to Statista.Ībout 61.4 per cent of Nigerian social media users use Twitter, 86.2 per cent use Facebook, 81.6 per cent use YouTube, 73.1 per cent use Instagram, and 67.2 per cent use Facebook Messenger.Hello literally everyone- Twitter October 4, 2021įacebook's annual revenue has more than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Nigeria had about 33 million active social media users as of January 2021. WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram down for many users Facebook says it is aware people are having trouble accessing its apps Users are reporting being unable to access Facebook in California, New York and across Europe Downdetector says problems spiked at 4. Since the suspension of microblogging site Twitter by the Federal Government of Nigeria in June 2021, Nigerians have relied heavily on Facebook-owned platforms for social interactions while a few others continue to tweet, circumventing the ban using Virtual Private Networks. The Facebook-owned apps, which have some three billion users worldwide, report occasional outages in March 2021 and July 2020, which often spark an array of comments on other social platforms. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown.” Also, wrote on Twitter, “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them.
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