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WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage (venturebeat.com)
WhatsApp went down in several parts of the world today including parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The crowdsourced website DownDetector found the largest concentration of outages in portions of England, Germany, and virtually all of the Netherlands, as well as parts of Italy, Spain, and central Europe. Outages were also reported in many major cities around the world, from Rio de Janeiro, Kuala Lumpur, and Tel Aviv to Dubai, Mumbai, and Toronto... "WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience," a WhatsApp spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.
... is the anti.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
enjoyed the dawning of new year.
why care for anyone who lives on whatsass/social media? they should "out" their non lives. they don't matter.
.. "WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience," a WhatsApp spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.
So... that's what email is good for. To let people know WhatsApp is down.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
According to wikipedia, it's an instant message / VOIP / file exchange thing for mobile phones, although it has a desktop presence as well, so I'm guessing it's another way for big data to see what teenagers are interested in this week.
WhatsApp went down in several parts of the world
I thought it was synonymous with "worldwide," meaning everywhere.
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Regarding the OP, 10 or 20 years ago, the landline phone system was going down at 12.01am 1st of January, local time. It is now whatever mobile application the populace fancies these days. I haven't checked this one, but nobody reported IRC going down.
+1 the CIA, NSA, MI6 and GCHQ are working overtime in places like Iran.
Trying for another color revolution that needs online encrypted communication to organise the spontaneous "protesters".
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Missed 23rd by this much...
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
i stopped using it to call relatives around christmas or new years. the servers get massive traffic and you can't get through. has happened for 3 or 4 straight years in a row
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It wasn't. It was created by a couple of guys who grew up in the USSR and wanted a platform that they could use to communicate with friends and family abroad, without anyone being able to spy on it. They even had a decent business model: the service was free for a year (so people got used to it and made their friends sign up) and then $1/year after that (cheap enough that it wasn't worth caring about, but more than the cost of providing the service, by quite a large amount). Unfortunately, then Facebook bought them. They're currently in some legal difficulty in the EU, because one of the conditions of allowing the takeover to proceed was that Facebook wouldn't share data between Facebook and WhatsApp. Now Facebook is saying that this is too hard and so they're not going to do it.
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Apparently it allows you to make international phone calls for free. At 4pm today, my ex's phone lit up with continuous calls of people wishing her happy new year, to the point where she just shut if off. Yes, her friends all live in GMT and are incapable of doing the math to understand the PST is GMT -8 hours! Of course, I strategically avoid the problem of getting too many greetings by having zero friends.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
What does it do?
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where you could type in that question and it could provide the answer. ... Ask Jeeves.
That would be great.
It would be like an information butler.
I suggest we invent it and call it
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