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]]>On Wednesday, netizens experienced difficulty accessing various apps and platforms due to outages at several prominent ones. Alphabet Inc’s YouTube was unavailable to certain users, as were Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitter.
Outage tracking website Downdetector showed that at the peak of the YouTube outage, more than 60,000 user reports indicated issues with the video sharing app in the United States alone by 07:20 PM ET. The company later informed that its homepage was back up, although it didn’t disclose how many users had been affected by the outage.
“The YouTube Homepage should be back for all of your video needs”, YouTube said.
Facebook and Instagram also saw brief outages and were back up for most users after some time. Meta said that a technical issue had disrupted services for thousands of people.
“A technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing our products. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible,” a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.
At the peak of the outage, Facebook users reported more than 11,000 incidents and Instagram users reported about 7,000 cases, according to Downdetector.com.
Users also faced issues with Facebook’s online messaging service Messenger.
Micro-blogging site Twitter also reported issues, with users unable to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”
Twitter was down for about 9,000 users in the United States at 5 pm Eastern time, according to Downdetector.com. The number of outages declined to 2,500 by 6 pm Eastern time.
“Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed,” tweeted Twitter’s support account on Wednesday.
Elon Musk has considerably slashed Twitter’s workforce over the last few months since acquiring the platform last October for $44bn. Last month, Musk said Twitter had about 2,300 employees, down from around 8,000 when he took over.
Experts had warned that cutting off so many jobs could cause technical issues, though it is not yet clear if the reduced headcount was to blame for Wednesday’s outage.
– inputs from Agencies was used in this article.
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]]>“Facebook services coming back online now – may take some time to get to 100 per cent,” Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer said in a tweet. “To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry.”
The error-reporting website Downdetector showed the services first stopped working around 11:45am ET. Across the globe, users of Facebook and its sister sites were unable to load content or were greeted with error messages.
Facebook and its affiliated apps began to return online for some users about 5:45pm, some six hours after the incident began.
On its Twitter account, the social media giant apologised for any inconvenienced caused by the blackout, while WhatsApp tweeted that it was “aware that some people are experiencing issues”.
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]]>Error reporting Downdetector showed the services stopped working shortly before 8pm, with over 20,000 reports of issues with Facebook and Instagram.
Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users.
Messages on Instagram and Whatsapp would not send, and new content would not load. Facebook’s main webpage returned a message saying the site could not be reached.
Facebook has not yet responded to a request for comment, but Whatsapp tweeted that it was “aware that some people are experiencing issues”.
The company is notoriously coy about the causes of its service outages, which affect three of the world’s most-used apps.
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]]>Yet those, who still want to swim against the tide and tend to stick to the tradition, believe that the card is a great way to share one’s feelings and excitement on the special occasions.
Umme Salma Eti, master’s student of Dhaka University, who was looking for Eid cards at Archies Gallery in Rifles Square Market in the capital, said she was in the habit of exchanging gritting card from her school days.
‘I feel I’ve done a great thing when I can give Eid cards to my friends, family members although I have accounts in different social websites,’ she said.
Her friend and classmate Himu said that digitalisation was good but not for always.
He said exchanging greeting cards really helps people strengthen their relationship and people should keep up with this practice.
Jakaria Sardar, student of Kabi Nazrul College, was looking for cards with cartoon characters and said his niece would be happy if they would get such cards.
He also bought some cards for his friends and said, ‘I could exchange greetings through facebook but there is little pleasure in that. I really appreciate cards for that shows my attachment with my friends.’
This year so many new designs of cards arrived in different gift shops. Some leading card makers are Ideal Products, Azad Products, Modina Products, Fahad Products and AB Enterprise.
Archies Gallery, Hallmarks and Ice Cool are the foreign shops run by local agents. The cards they sell are imported.
There are other gift shops including Gift Zone, 1 to 99 Shop, 1 to 100 Shop selling Eid cards.
Some makeshift small shops, mainly run by young boys in different areas, also sell Eid cards.
Moslem Uddin, Purana Paltan branch manager of Ideal Products, said they had brought about 750 new designs of cards in their 25 branches in the country.
The designs include Three Fold, Nine Six, Tees Maar Khan, Mini Cards, with price ranging between Tk 1 to Tk 1200.
Cards with different cartoon characters including Tom and Jerry, Poo, Popeye, Simba were also brought to attract the children.
Azad Products Purana Paltan branch manager Saiful Islam said they had made about 500 designs of Eid greeting cards with price ranging from Tk 2 to Tk 400 each.
Archies Gallery in different branches around the city has brought eight different designs of cards with price ranging between Tk 75 to Tk 115.
Hallmarks have also brought some cards of price ranged from Tk 120 to Tk 180.
-With New Age input
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Can you really ban students and teachers from being Facebook friends?We’ll soon find out in Missouri. According to Missouri Senate Bill 54, which goes into effect on August 28, any social networking – including, but not limited to, Facebook – between teachers and students is prohibited.
It’s all part of an effort to “more clearly define teacher-student boundaries.”
However, KSPR reports that it’s only direct social media contact that’s prohibited by Missouri’s new law; teachers are still allowed to create Facebook pages where all students have direct access to the teacher in a more public setting.
Inappropriate contact between students and teachers is the root of the bill.
Senate Bill 54 is designed to protect children from sexual misconduct by teachers, compelling school districts to adopt written policies between teachers and students on electronic media, social networking and other communication.
In addition to the legalities – Will this new law pass a constitutional test? Who would step forward to challenge it? – you wonder how this will be policed.
Will officials now create Facebook accounts, personal computers or Internet service provider records to see who’s befriending teachers or students?
Inappropriate relationships will be hard to detect, especially since teachers and students engaged in them would likely be discreet anyway. Right?
What do you think? Sound off below.
-With The Hollywood Gossip input
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]]>Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’
Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, believes the growth of internet ‘friendships’ – as well as greater use of computer games – could effectively ‘rewire’ the brain.
This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations.
More than 750million people across the world use Facebook to share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their movements and thoughts. Millions have also signed up to Twitter, the ‘micro-blogging’ service that lets members circulate short text and picture messages about themselves.
Baroness Greenfield, former director of research body the Royal Institution, said: ‘What concerns me is the banality of so much that goes out on Twitter. Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): “Look at me Mummy, I’m doing this”, “Look at me Mummy I’m doing that”. It’s almost as if they’re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.’
-With dailymail.co.uk input
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]]>Facebook has overtaken Microsoft as the UK’s second most popular web site behind Google, according to figures revealed on Monday by online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen.
The social networking site recorded 26.8 million visits last month from people in the UK, many of them over the age of 50.
The number was high enough to propel Facebook above Microsoft’s collective web brand, including MSN, Windows and Bing.
UKOM/Nielsen said that there had been a steady growth of older people using Facebook since 2009, with an 84 per cent increase of 50 to 64 year-olds and an 81 per cent increase in over-65s.
Nielsen senior director Stephanie Hayden suggested that the growing number of older people visiting social networks presents businesses with new opportunities to engage with customers.
“Consumers of all ages are online right now having millions of conversations about brands, categories and, more importantly, the key topics that matter to them,” she said.
“All companies should be making the effort to listen to consumers online in order to stay relevant to them and to fuel new directions for their brand.”
According to the UKOM/Nielsen research, Twitter also enjoyed the highest-ever UK audience last month with 6.14 million visitors, representing growth of 43 per cent since May.
The rise was again mainly because of the new interest in social networks from older generations, with a 65 per cent increase in the number of men aged 50-64 on Twitter and a 96 per cent rise in women over 65.
Meanwhile, the research also noted the continued growth of business network LinkedIn, which registered 3.59 million UK visitors last month, a 57 per cent increase since April.
Facebook overtook Google in the US in March 2010 to become the most popular web site for the first time in its history, according to Hitwise data.
-With v3.co.uk input
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