We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Facebook Whisleblower’s explosive interview on 60 MinutesĬould the crash be connected to revelations made yesterday by a former Facebook employee?įrances Haugen last night revealed her identity as the Facebook Whistleblower in an interview on 60 Minutes. Later the company’s CTO Mike Schroepfer said: “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” Twitter broke records for the number of visitors it suddenly received.īy 21h30 in South Africa, the Top 5 Twitter trends were: 1 – WhatsApp, 2 – #facebookdown, 3 – Mark Zuckerberg, 4 – #DeleteFacebook, 5 – iMessageĪccording to Downdetector’s news at 20h00, almost 80,000 users reported WhatsApp being down, over 120,000 reported Facebook outages and at least 80,000 reported Instagram is down.įacebook announced (in a tweet of course): “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Twitter humorously tweeted: “hello literally everyone”… as people around the globe turned to the social media site for information on what was happening. The platform currently has 3 billion users.In South Africa #WhatsApp is still trending (at midnight) at number one on social media platform Twitter (which is not owned by Facebook, and which has been working!). The outage marked the longest stretch of downtime for Facebook since 2008, when a bug knocked the site offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. DNS, short for Domain Name System, is like a phone book for websites. ThousandEyes, a network monitoring service owned by Cisco, said in an email that the outage was the result of DNS failure. Reports on showed the outages appeared to be widespread, but it was unclear how many users were unable to access the apps.
Thank you for bearing with us."Īll three platforms stopped working shortly before noon ET, when the websites and apps for Facebook's services were responding with server errors.
"We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. "To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry," Facebook said in a statement. Some of the services are not yet fully functioning - for example, some users are still reporting problems posting new content to Instagram.
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