Facebook shares have fallen heavily. Mark Zuckerberg Lost Over $6 Billion
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lost more than $6 billion in a few hours of failure.
Tech giant Facebook, which also owns Instagram and Whatsapp, plunged 5% on news of its biggest crash in years. The personal fortune of the founder of the company Mark Zuckerberg decreased by 6.3 billion dollars, reports RBC.
This is evidenced by the ranking of billionaires from Forbes magazine, which is updated in real time.
The failure of Facebook, the WhatsApp messenger and the social network Instagram occurred on the evening of October 4. Users from all over the world complained about the unavailability of services, problems with the operation of their sites and applications, with the connection to servers and the inability to send messages, according to Downdetector data. The companies have apologized and said they are working on troubleshooting.
In addition, there were complaints about failures in the work of Twitter, Telegram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, as well as services from Google and Amazon. Telegram explained the difficulties with the servers by a large number of new users who register in the service due to problems with WhatsApp.