There are reports that Messenger is testing the feature but the release date isn't confirmed yet. Messenger is keeping pace with the times, and its time WhatsApp also adopts some of these modern ideas.ĭelete sent messages: WhatsApp lets you delete sent message unlike the Messenger. There is also a 'dark mode' in the pipeline. Messenger has features like gradients, which lets you use multiple colours to customise your chat bubbles in conversation to reflect your mood or topic of conversation. So apparently Facebook Messenger is downand people have been freaking out. Following are some of the tweets from users after they found the app was down. Given the extreme popularity of the application, a very large number of users were affected. Meanwhile, group calling is better on Messenger, especially when you need to call 50 people! WhatsApp allows you to start a group call with not more than 4 people.ĭesign: It's a personal choice but Messenger design is a lot more modern than that of WhatsApp. The Facebook Messenger app suffered a massive outage today. WhatsApp works smoothly on 3G, Wi-Fi, and even 2G networks. Messenger is well integrated with Facebook and deploys facial recognition to identify your friends in the photos.Ĭalling: Placing calls via WhatsApp is preferred because it lets you place calls even in places where signal strength is weak. Update 6:48PM ET: Added a note that WhatsApp is also coming back online.Image transfer: WhatsApp enforces a limit to number of images you can send. Update 6:07PM ET: Added a note that Facebook and Instagram started coming back online. Update 4:39PM ET: Added comment from Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer. Update 3:04PM ET: Added context from Brian Krebs. Akamai eventually fixed the problem later that same day. Facebook alone is in control over its DNS records."īack in July, Akamai Technologies, one of the largest content delivery networks in the world, went through a similar outage, leading to a large section of the internet, including platforms like the PlayStation Store, TikTok and LastPass, becoming inaccessible.
"It could well have been the result of an internal, system-wide change or update that went awry. Per journalist Brian Krebs, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from the global routing tables sometime this morning."We don't know why this change was made," Krebs wrote in a tweet. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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