Facebook down for second time in a week
Facebook was inaccessible for some users on Monday afternoon, its second outage in less than a week. Facebook’s map on downdetector.com, which monitors disruptions, showed major outages over parts of North America and elsewhere. The social network’s mobile app appeared to be down as well, but Messenger services seem to be working. A message displayed on facebook.com said: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.
- The company’s shares were down
nearly 4% at $89.25 (£58.83) in afternoon trading
- Facebook suffered a similar
outage last Thursday when it was down in North America, Europe, Australia
and India.
My opinion on this news story is the fact that due to audiences being so
tuned into social media, they almost have media controls their life. As due to
audiences complaining about the downfall of Facebook, it shows how dependant
they are on social media, and therefore how social media has changed the way
people now behave as well as react to things like social media having issues and
not working.
Buzzfeed moves into local news by hiring new regional reporters
Buzzfeed is looking to take on local
and regional papers at their own game, by recruiting more regional reporters to
cover the north of England, Scotland and Wales. The ever-growing news and
entertainment site is in the process of hiring 14 new staff members, including
four reporters who will cover regional beats. This will see Buzzfeed's news
team in the UK increase by around half, growing to 40 people. Although these
reporters will cover wide regions, and won't have the advantage of large teams
or detailed local knowledge that local papers have, the news will still worry
the beleaguered publishers of local and regional titles.
- The BBC made similar move recently, announcing that they would fund
100 local journalists In
- August, NBC Universal invested $200 million in Buzzfeed - bringing
the total value of the company to around $1.5 billion.
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