Mark Zuckerberg Loses a Whopping $7 Billion as a Result of Social Media Outage

Mark Zuckerberg Loses a Whopping $7 Billion as a Result of Social Media Outage

  • Mark Elliot Zuckerberg’s heart shot into his throat as he saw billions flying out the window while Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down
  • It has been reported that Zuckerberg lost as much as $7 billion in just the few hours that the platforms were down
  • Thankfully all the platforms are back up and Zuckerberg is slowly regaining his fortunes from the billions of users

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Facebook tycoon Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was stressing while the rest of the world had some peace and quiet during the several hours that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down.

Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 billion, social media, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg has lost his position as the 5th most richest person in the world amid the global outage of social media giants, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Image: @zuck
Source: Instagram

The outage smacked Zuckerberg so hard to it saw him falling from his place as the fifth richest person in the world, reported The Citizen. Zuckerberg's personal wealth fell by nearly $7 billion in just a few hours.

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Ironically, Facebook took to Twitter to announce that it was aware of the problem and was working to resolve it. People all over the world were in utter panic as their favourite platforms were not operational for much longer than they would have liked.

“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”

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Thankfully the platforms are back up and the world of social media is spinning once again. What exactly happened has not been explained, but we are sure Zuckerberg will make sure that it never does again.

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Millions of social media users around the globe were left in limbo after an apparent global social media outage on Monday night, reported Briefly News.

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People who prefer Twitter, among other social networking platforms, shared information in droves around the so-called "internet shutdown" as panic-stricken users began to feel its sting.

Millions of social media users around the globe were left in limbo after an apparent global social media outage on Monday night. People who prefer Twitter, among other social networking platforms, shared information in droves around the so-called "internet shutdown" as panic-stricken users began to feel its sting.

Source: Briefly News

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Denika Herbst (Editor) Denika Herbst is a Human Interest writer at Briefly News. She is also an Industrial Sociologist with a master's degree in Industrial Organisational and Labour Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, which she completed in 2020. She is now a PhD candidate at UKZN. Denika has over five years of experience writing for Briefly News (joined in 2018), and a short time writing for The South African. You can reach her via: denika.herbst@briefly.co.za.