WhatsApp and Telegram
What is the time of the applications of messaging en something undeniable. Not only are they enjoying exponential growth in terms of users, but they are also commanding media attention with alliances and multi-million dollar purchases. This is the case of WhatsApp and Telegram Two services willing to compete and that continue to give what speak, even if it is due to malfunctioning
Thus, only three days after Facebook bought the WhatsApp application for 19 billion dollars, its service has suffered again one of its criticized and almost habitual falls That is, has stopped working temporarily, preventing users from establishing contact for several hours throughout last night. While the problems began in the middle of the afternoon, WhatsApp did not officially report the bug until 21:17through his status account on the social network Twitter A simple message informing about a failure in the serversof the application that prevented the sending and, therefore, the reception of messages, photos, videos and sounds.
As usual, the rest of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter were inundated with complaints, comments and jokes about the event.An event that lasted several hours until close to midnight, when WhatsApp once again reported the recovery of the normal operation of its messaging service. Apologizing also for what happened. Of course, many users still tooka few more hours to recover other features such as sending photos and videos, which was still paused after midnight.
It is usual that this company does not clarify the details of these falls. However, El País reports an email received in which those responsible blame the problem on servers , and emphasize WhatsApp's independence from Facebook An attempt, perhaps, to make it clear that there is no relationship of any kind between the failure and the acquisition of the application. Although, according to other media, the problem with WhatsApp could come from its recent purchase, drawing the attention of the great American public where the messaging application is not as widespread.Thus, a large number of users would have tried to download and use this service even blocking it A matter that has not been officially confirmed.
If so, the same thing would have happened as with Telegram And the new application that has arrived for standing up to WhatsApp was also in the news yesterday due to connection and operation problems Something that those responsible did have explained through their Twitter account and that they blame the large number of users that they were receiving. Specifically, the problems started with the account confirmation step in which you have to receive a SMS message with an activation key A step interrupted because you can't manage a volume of more than 100 registrations per second and that paralyzed and slowed down the sending of these activation messages.
Therefore, both WhatsApp and Telegram have been victims of their own success, showing that they play with huge volumes of users and information capable of saturating their servers, however secure and decentralized they may be. A problem that comes from success, but which is of no consolation for the user who, after spending a Saturday evening without communicating with his friends and family, tries to download the alternative application to verify that it doesn't work either.
