After a brief outage that impacted thousands of users, Microsoft owns professional networking site LinkedIn. It has now successfully resumed operations. Over 48,000 claims of service interruptions in the US were made as a result of the Wednesday disturbance, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Linkedin problem
LinkedIn recognized the problem earlier on Wednesday, saying that certain users were having problems and that they were looking into the matter. This event comes after Facebook and Instagram, which are owned by Meta, suffered a recent outage on Tuesday that lasted for more than two hours. A technological problem was the cause of the disturbance, which affected hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.
Though newly launched X competitor Threads was unavailable, Meta-owned WhatsApp did not disclose any outages.
In the minutes following the downtime, users began to migrate to the Elon Musk-owned X, and hashtags #Instagramdown, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg became popular on the social media network as users shared memes in response to the widespread server problem.
OPPOSITE
Another Meta product, WhatsApp, appeared to be mainly unharmed by the outage. On Downdetector, user complaints of outages increased little. At 10:54 a.m. ET, there were 330 reports at their height. Similar problems were reported by Threads users; nevertheless, reports reached their climax with 943 complaints around 10:27 a.m. ET. According to The Verge, some Meta Quest headset users were having trouble logging in as well.
Chief Critic
The owner of X, Elon Musk, made fun of his rival on social media on the downtime. “Our servers are up and running if you’re viewing this post,” he wrote on the website X, which was once known as Twitter.
TANGENT
The outage happened on Super Tuesday, when voters are expected to cast ballots in GOP primary elections in 15 states and one territory.
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