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The fact that these are called outages is kind of alarming. Do people rely on any of these as their exclusive communication when in danger?
by buboard 7y ago
The fact that these are called outages is kind of alarming. Do people rely on any of these as their exclusive communication when in danger?
- wybiral 7y agoI don't think the service needs to be critical for it to be an "outage". If the service is unavailable to people who use it that's an "outage". You could have a soft-serve ice cream machine outage.
- maw 7y agoI hope not. But in some countries many small to medium businesses use WhatsApp extensively for communication with their customers. For many people it's as bad, arguably worse, than their main ISP going down.
- renaudg 7y agoOf course they do. In many developing countries, Facebook IS the Internet. https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/ https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...