"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now," he said in his post. Download Signal app, the Twitter CEO, who decided to flag US President Donald Trump's decision about glorifying violence on May 25. (AP) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is asking everyone to download the Signal app as protests in the wake of the death of George Flyod gain momentum in the US. "Sorry for the disruption today - I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about," Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday as services began returning online. Signal has been downloaded 121,000 times in the US. The outage prompted an apology from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and a slew of memes and jokes on Twitter, with the official account of the microblogging platform itself joined the meme-fest. Responding to a tweet from Edward Snowden urging people to switch to Signal from WhatsApp, Mr Dorsey quipped: "Signal is WhatsUp."ĭowndetector, a service that monitors reports of outages, said the Facebook service outage is the largest it has ever seen. The messaging service also received an endorsement from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Millions of new users joined the app on Monday, Signal announced on Twitter. Signal, the private messaging app endorsed by Edward Snowden, saw millions of people signing up as WhatsApp faced a prolonged downtime, according to Bloomberg. From Instagram head Adam Mosseri to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, everyone flocked to the microblogging platform as the Facebook-owned services shut out its users.
With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all facing disruptions, Twitter is where all the action was on Monday. Reports of outages and disruptions began pouring in at about 11:30 EST on Monday - but Facebook's loss turned into gain for other platforms. Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out many of its 2.7 billion global users.
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