City
Epaper

Instagram saw highest outage, Twitter least in Q4: Report

By IANS | Updated: January 28, 2020 13:50 IST

Facebook-owned Instagram experienced the highest outage in the fourth quarter of 2019 with 21,682 reports at the peak on November 28, 2019, while Twitter reported the least amount of outage complaints with 15,952 reports at the peak on October 22, 2019, according to a new report on Tuesday.

Open in App

The Twitter outage lasted only about a half an hour, leaving unable to tweet, retweet, like tweets or access their account at the peak of the outage, according to the findings by Downdetector, a company which tracks outages in technology platforms and social media sites.

Facebook also experienced an outage on November 28 with 12,726 reports at the peak. The outage lasted about five hours and affected users across the globe.

"The Facebook family of social media sites outage on November 28, 2019 was one of many social outages in Q4 2019. The outage lasted about five hours and affected users in the US, Germany, Italy and Spain," said the report titled "What Went Down? The Most Significant Online Service Outages in Q4 2019".

"A combined 34,408 Facebook and Instagram users reported outages at the peak of the outage," it added.

Facebook's Messenger app experienced a smaller outage on November 18, 2019 with 8,952 users reporting outages at the peak.

Snapchat, the popular multimedia messaging app was down for five and a half hours on October 14, 2019, leaving users unable to chat, send or receive photos from their friends.

At the peak of the outage, 18,252 users from the US reported problems.

The outage was so significant as the hashtag #SnapchatDown was trending on Twitter at the time of the outage.

In the mobile operators category, Vodafone was down for about four hours for thousands of users on October 23, 2019.

At the peak of the outage, 21,065 users, primarily in Germany, reported having problems with their service, said the report.

( With inputs from IANS )

Open in App

Related Stories

International"Fully agree with you...India's friendship with Italy will continue to get stronger": PM Modi after meeting Giorgia Meloni

InternationalG7 leaders vow action against rising threat of transnational repression

International"India, Canada must strengthen democracy, humanity together": PM Modi to Canadian counterpart Carney in bilateral talks

International"Had an excellent meeting": PM Modi on meeting Canadian PM on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis

InternationalPM Modi, S.Korea President Lee affirm commitment to deepening strategic partnership

टेकमेनिया Realted Stories

TechnologyDGCA gives clean chit to Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet amid thorough inspection

TechnologyNo major safety concerns with Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet: DGCA

TechnologyAndhra Pradesh plans to establish three circular economy parks

TechnologyIPO-bound Arisinfra's net loss widens to Rs 17.3 crore, revenue drops nearly 7 pc in FY24

TechnologyUnion Minister Jitendra Singh reviews progress of science and technology institutes in Northeast