In one of the day’s most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show “Squid Game” captioned “When Instagram & Facebook are down,” that showed a person labeled “Twitter” holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled “everyone.” Twitter on Monday reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing posts and direct messages. “Facebook basically locked its keys in its car,” tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. “To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry,” Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it “may take some time to get to 100%.” Shares rose about half a percent in after-hours trade following resumption of service. The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.Īs the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9%, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday. ![]() The Facebook outage is the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. “We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change,” Facebook said in the blog. ![]() Security experts have said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible.Īlso read: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp reconnecting after nearly six-hour outage The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees said. Several Facebook employees who declined to be named had told Reuters earlier that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in how internet traffic is routed to its systems. The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned. You can sign up to receive it directly here.Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. Last month, the social media giant experienced one of its longest ever outages, when millions of users around the globe faced trouble accessing the site, along with Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours.įacebook blamed the previous outage on a hack.Įach evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. ![]() Read more: Assessing WhatsApp's 5 years with Facebookįacebook has more than 1.52 billion daily active users, according to its website. The hashtags #FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter globally on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage. The issue has since been resolved, we're sorry for any inconvenience," a spokesman told the Reuters news agency. "Earlier today, some people may have experienced the trouble connecting to the family of apps. ![]() Hours later, the services were restored, according to a Facebook spokesperson. It showed the WhatsApp and Instagram issues were relatively lower by a count of outage reports from users. Read more: EU hails social media crackdown on hate speech The website also showed that WhatsApp and Instagram - both owned by Facebook - also experienced severe outages around the same time. CEST (1030 UTC) in much of the world.Īt one point, the site registered more than 14,000 outage reports from users, which is believed to represent just a fraction of those affected. For the second time in a month, Facebook was not loading for millions of users in the northeastern US, Europe and parts of Asia on Sunday.ĭ, a website that monitors site outages, showed the social media giant went down at 12:30 p.m.
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