{"id":172837,"date":"2021-09-28T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172837"},"modified":"2021-09-28T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:44:08","slug":"messaging-app-signal-faces-global-network-outage-company-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/messaging-app-signal-faces-global-network-outage-company-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Messaging App Signal Faces Global Network Outage, Company Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">San Francisco, Sep 27 (AFP): Encrypted instant messaging app Signal was hit by an outage late Sunday that interrupted services on the platform.<br \/>\n&#8220;Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service,&#8221; the company said on Twitter. &#8220;We&#8217;re working on bringing it back up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service. We&#8217;re working on bringing it back up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Internet outage monitor DownDetector said users began reporting network problems at 11:05 pm Eastern Standard Time (0305 GMT).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The site logged reports of interrupted service in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First launched in 2014, Signal saw a surge in downloads earlier this year after Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp tweaked its terms of service and sparked privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its profile was boosted by a tweeted recommendation by tech entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk and the app was downloaded more than 100 million times as of March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, Sep 27 (AFP): Encrypted instant messaging app Signal was hit by an outage late Sunday that interrupted services on the platform. &#8220;Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service,&#8221; the company said on Twitter. &#8220;We&#8217;re working on bringing it back up.&#8221; Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}