Maduro, 21, said WhatsApp serves as a social and economic tool in Central America. In her home country of Honduras, however, ”People freaked out.” “Here, it was a joke,” said Camila Maduro, another Emerson College student. Jagan Srinivasan with his wife Snehalata Kadam and daughter Uruvi, 3. “It’s become an inseparable aspect of our kids’ lives,” he said. That communication is a mainstay of their second-generation immigrant experience, Srinivasan said. They regularly chat with cousins in Chennai and Kolhapur through the platform, exchanging videos and engaging in hushed conversations. But his three children felt WhatsApp’s absence. Srinivasan switched to voice over Internet Protocol, an alternative phone system, to talk to his mother Monday. Without the barrage of notifications, he joked, “We all got more work done.” He normally wakes up to 20 WhatsApp messages from family members and organizations he works with in India. The outage was less of an issue for Jagan Srinivasan, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor and Shrewsbury resident. “It’s scary that this network that is under serious fire now is necessary to my life - as an artist and as an immigrant,” he said. He uses Instagram and Facebook to find part-time freelance work allowed under the federal agreement. But we use alternative messengers too, so switched," said another.Months after graduating with a degree in theater studies, Cosio-Mercado is bound by a temporary employment authorization. Monday's outage was an "unpleasant surprise", one Europe-based trader said. In Russia, oil traders said WhatsApp was commonly used to communicate details on orders across Europe and Asia. OTC traders in oil markets were also hit, though again the blow was softened by the use of other platforms. In the Middle East, "crypto OTC trading is predominately on Telegram or WhatsApp, where you ask your OTC brokers for bid and offer, and then you hit it and they'll confirm the transaction," said Zachary Cefaratti, CEO of Dubai investment platform Dalma Capital, adding that Telegram was becoming more widely used. The outage also came after markets had closed in much of Asia, limiting any impact. In India, for example, market chatter on WhatsApp has moved to Telegram where there are fewer restrictions on the size of group chats. Still, the prevalence of messenger services beyond WhatsApp meant Monday's outage was a nuisance rather than a major disruption. It's not just, what time are you headed to 'The Dog and Duck', it's, what's your price on a 5-year?," said Blower, using slang for a British pub.
"What's interesting is both the volume and the content of the messages. The app has become the "default messaging service" in many markets, especially in continental Europe and Asia-Pacific, Blower added.įrom some 2,000 interdealer users sending 10,000 messages a day in the energy market in 2016, VoxSmart today tracks between three and five million messages weekly across asset classes, including between banks and buy-side clients.
WhatsApp usage among financial traders tracked by communications surveillance firm VoxSmart has boomed as banks accept that clients want to use the platform, even if bosses prefer their staff to use official messaging channels, VoxSmart CEO Oliver Blower said. Telegram and Slack-based trading was on par with daily averages." "Day-on-day volume was down 15% on the average daily, which we're internally attributing to the connectivity issues. counterparties," said Chief Executive Oliver von-Landsberg Sadie.
"The WhatsApp outage hit us in our busiest trading period where we face U.S.
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