Just the other day Facebook announced that they would be acquiring WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion dollars, and then it seems that just a few days later, WhatsApp goes down in what they’re calling their longest and biggest outage. To be specific, WhatsApp had gone down for about a total of four hours. Four hours might not seem too long for regular users but as we can see based on the result of aftermath of the BBM outage back in 2011, interruption in messaging services can sometimes prove to be a very big deal, especially if you’re a business that relies heavily on the service for your communications.
That being said, WhatsApp’s CEO, Jan Koum, has since come forward to issue an apology for the outage, stating that, “It has been our longest and biggest outage in years and affected all of our users.” According to Kuom, the reason behind the outage is apparently due to a faulty network router that caused a cascading failure that affected the WhatsApp servers. Further details about the problem were not elaborated on, but whatever the case it seems to have nothing to do with the publicity that WhatsApp has been gaining over Facebook’s acquisition of the company. Kuom has also promised that the company is now taking additional measures to ensure that this will not happen again.
On Saturday, some of those users took to other form of social media, including blogs and Twitter to report the outage and went their frustration. Was that a test to check the reaction of users or any other planning??
WhatsApp's smartphone based messaging is known to appeal to teens and others who avoid mainstream social networks.When some hours can create this much frustration, that what if whatsApp wiil be out for a day or two??, There was even buzz that Facebook had really bought WhatsApp to shut it down and funnel users to Facebook Chat. Well, Answer to this question will be soon out in near future.
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