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AppWizard
December 12, 2024
On Wednesday afternoon, Meta's applications, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, experienced significant disruptions starting around 12:30 p.m. EST. By approximately 1:10 p.m. EST, Facebook alone had over 100,000 outage reports. Instagram and WhatsApp also reported increasing issues. By just before 5:30 p.m. EST, Facebook's outage reports decreased to over 1,200 and Instagram's dropped to about 1,900 from a peak of more than 68,000. Meta's status page indicated major disruptions in its business tools, and users encountered error messages. After 5:30 p.m., Meta communicated on X, stating they were close to resolving the issues. This outage follows a previous global disruption in March that affected hundreds of thousands of users.
AppWizard
December 11, 2024
Meta has been fined €91 million (2 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission due to improperly storing user passwords, following an investigation that started in April 2019. Additionally, Meta is experiencing major outages affecting applications like Facebook Ads Manager, Messenger, and the WhatsApp Business API, resulting in significant disruptions for users.
AppWizard
August 18, 2024
Epic Games has been offering free games weekly since 2018 as a strategy for user acquisition, which has proven to be cost-effective compared to traditional advertising methods. CEO Tim Sweeney stated that the costs of acquiring users through free games are significantly lower than through platforms like Facebook or Google Ads. This initiative not only attracts new players but also increases sales for developers' other titles. Despite the success of the free games program, Epic has faced challenges with exclusive titles, where some investments in exclusivity did not yield the expected results.
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