Facebook outage: change in time spent on social media week-over-week in the UK 2021

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Stacy Jo Dixon,
Jan 21, 2022
On Monday October 4th, 2021, Facebook suffered a major outage, which caused online services Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as the main Facebook social media platform to be inaccessible for several hours. During the week of the Facebook outage, WhatsApp registered a decrease of 33 percent in time spent on the platform by users in the United Kingdom. By comparison, SMS and instant-messaging application Google Messages registered an increase of 76 percent in time spent by UK users during the outage.

Week-over-week change in time spent by users in the United Kingdom on selected social media and digital platforms during global Facebook outage on October 4th, 2021

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Release date

September 2021

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

October 4, 2021

Age group

15 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

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