Digital Stats of the Week: Facebook Blackout Edition

The social network capped a record outage with the departure of 2 top execs

Another week, another series of trials and tribulations for Mark Zuckerberg and company.

As brands and tech companies were congregating in Austin for South by Southwest, Facebook stole everyone’s attention when it, Instagram and other associated apps became unusable worldwide for nearly 24 hours due to an apparent “server configuration change.” Just as it was restored, the social network announced that longtime product chief Chris Cox was on his way out along with WhatsApp head Chris Daniels.

Then

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