Facebook said a shift in the setup of its computer servers caused a widespread outage described as the largest ever recorded to hit the social media network and its other services.
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Facebook is undergoing one of its most widespread and persistent system outages, with users across the globe unable to access its social network and services from Instagram to Messenger.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest blog post talks about making Facebook and its Internet hangouts more of an intimate digital “living room” rather than a raucous public town square.
MTN Group has announced it will launch an instant messaging service akin to China’s WeChat and Facebook’s WhatsApp as it seeks to expand revenue from digital services and mobile money.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the future of his company’s product development will be focused on encrypted, private and ephemeral communication.
As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual friendship this week, social science has compiled an expansive body of research that documents the public’s love-hate relationship with its best frenemy.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss why Facebook is planning to make WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram interopable and the implications of the move.
There will be grumbling about Facebook unifying its apps. But it was an obvious decision by a company that now has to try much harder to continue to lure more people and advertisers to its digital empire.
Facebook is planning to integrate parts of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, as part of a huge technical operation across the social network’s collection of messaging apps.
WhatsApp is to limit the number of times users can forward any single message to five in an attempt to stop false information spreading on the platform.