Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
This is why Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp were down
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While it's still not completely clear what happened an outage which affected WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook was down to networking issues, some experts have said.
The sites were down for several hours – with users across the globe experiencing issues getting on to them. The platforms confirmed on Twitter that they were aware of issues and were working to resolve them after thousands of people reported outages shortly before 5pm on Monday.
Security experts speculated the problem came following network changes, with the cause still unconfirmed by late Monday evening.
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