{"id":105832,"date":"2021-10-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=105832"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:48:13","slug":"who-gained-most-out-of-facebooks-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/stocks\/who-gained-most-out-of-facebooks-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Gained Most Out Of Facebook&#8217;s Outage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Snap Inc<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/benzinga.com\/stock\/snap#NYSE\"><strong>SNAP<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;made the most out of&nbsp;<strong>Facebook Inc\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/benzinga.com\/stock\/fb#NASDAQ\"><strong>FB<\/strong><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/21\/10\/23221279\/facebook-instagram-and-related-app-users-report-worldwide-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 4 outage<\/a>&nbsp;versus the other rivals,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-10-06\/snapchat-was-the-biggest-winner-the-day-facebook-went-dark?sref=TBDibEcD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snapchat usage surged 23% after Facebook services went down for six hours based on Sensor Tower data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/21\/10\/23233241\/facebook-says-this-is-what-caused-the-outage-of-its-platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed network configuration<\/a>&nbsp;glitches for hampering a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snap saw a 23% increase in time spent on its Android app on Monday compared with the same day the prior week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other rival gainers included Telegram, Signal,&nbsp;<strong>Twitter Inc<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/benzinga.com\/stock\/twtr#NYSE\"><strong>TWTR<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>, and&nbsp;<strong>ByteDance Ltd\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telegram app added 70 million users and set new highs for registrations and activity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telegram jumped to the top of the iPhone App Store as the most downloaded free app in 40 markets, while Signal was no. 1 in Poland and the top 10 in 35 markets, Sensor Tower said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-price-action\"><strong>Price Action:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>SNAP shares traded lower by 1.51% at $72.30 in the premarket session on the last check Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally Posted on October 6, 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/21\/10\/23255347\/who-gained-most-out-of-facebooks-outage\">Who Gained Most Out Of Facebook&#8217;s Outage?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snap Inc\u00a0SNAP\u00a0made the most out of\u00a0Facebook Inc\u2019s\u00a0FB \u00a0October 4 outage\u00a0versus the other rivals,\u00a0Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,9,22,26,3],"tags":[411,960,478],"contributors-categories":[13584],"class_list":{"0":"post-105832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-america","7":"category-region","8":"category-securities","9":"category-stocks","10":"category-text-articles","11":"category-traders-insight","12":"tag-fb","13":"tag-snap","14":"tag-twtr","15":"contributors-categories-benzinga"},"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who Gained Most Out Of Facebook&#8217;s Outage?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Snap Inc\u00a0SNAP\u00a0made the most out of\u00a0Facebook Inc\u2019s\u00a0FB \u00a0October 4 outage\u00a0versus the other rivals,\u00a0Bloomberg reports.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105832\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who Gained Most Out Of Facebook&#039;s Outage? 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