JAKARTA – Facebook social media since Monday, April 10th, 2021, night, disruptions. Aside from being unable to post content on the Instagram app, it also affects Whatsapp’s performance, especially outside of the US where it has lost its encrypted messaging service.

Quote from Bloomberg, February 2020 WhatsApp has 2 billion users worldwide, as well Facebook app connected to 2.5 billion users alone. It has become the standard method of contacting people in many countries, including around 400 million users in India.

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The WhatsApp messaging application is also an important support in the business world. Whatsapp, for example, claims to have 175 million worldwide as of October 2020 who use the messaging app for business purposes.

The case of WhatsApp has disrupted communication access, customer inquiries are not processed, information or messages cannot be disseminated and disrupts users’ business.

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The disruption has actually benefited competitors for encrypted messaging apps like Signal, Telegram, and iMessage.

corresponding The edge, Facebook’s 6-hour outage impacted the new sign-up rate for competing apps, including the messaging app Signal, which this year was at its January level. It even rose when WhatsApp passed a new policy in early 2021.