Three Facebook-owned platforms are down after a worldwide outage.
Facebook, Instagram, and the popular messaging app WhatsApp are all out of service for tens of thousands of users, according to Downdetector.com.
In a statement on Twitter, the social media giant said, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.”
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” the company added.
Instagram and WhatsApp also confirmed issues on their Twitter pages.
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021
Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021
We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
All three platforms operate on a common infrastructure.
“Downdetector, which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram,” reports Reuters. “The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 35,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 9,800 users.”
An error on Facebook “suggested a Domain Name System (DNS) error. DNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July,” per NDTV.
Facebook was temporarily out of service in both March and July due to large-scale outages.
According to CNN, “The outage came the morning after ’60 Minutes’ aired a segment in which Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen claimed the company is aware of how its platforms are used to spread hate, violence and misinformation, and that Facebook has tried to hide that evidence. Facebook has pushed back on those claims.”
News of the outages prompted a plethora of reactions on Twitter.
hello literally everyone
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021
At least now we know why it sucks when one company owns everything.
— Sahil Shah 🇮🇳 (@SahilBulla) October 4, 2021
WhatsApp being down reminds me of power cuts in the good old days when people used to step out of their houses or sit in their balconies, except now we just go on Twitter
— Kevin Lee (@kevinkennethlee) October 4, 2021
*Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram are down*
Everyone coming back to twitter:pic.twitter.com/fsa32oOLDu— Jafrin⁷ (@antares_ojo_o) October 4, 2021
The official cause of the outages has not yet been publicly announced.
Sorry about the wait, kind of wish this site notified on replies and I was headed to my second job so no time to follow up till now. I got that info from another colleague in the tech field who hadn’t cited what he was reading, this site has a pretty good breakdown of the blow by blow: https://unshackledminds.com/facebook-is-alive-dns-issues-being-resolved-after-six-hours-of-darkness/
Wouldn’t be surprised at all if this was an inside job to prevent the truth from getting out about the “vaccines” from Project Veritas. Literally the same day that, I quote, “Your suspicions are about to be confirmed tonight at 8PM” from James O’Keefe.
Yep. Exactly
Agreed!
It is not an accident that this is happening the day before the whistleblower testifies before Congress.
Dear Jesus, please create a social media outage that lasts until the end of time. In Jesus name we pray…..
I feel like they are trying to stop something from spreading. Like project veritas or something
Thank you, good sir. Could you share a link for further reading?
The Millenium Edition of ms windows is still good. Don’t fight it.
Maybe a solar coronal ejection will take out some satellites and give some Emperor’s New Clothes folk a “reality check”. So, they thought they had something to whine about. Welcome back the 1800s. Humanity pays no attention to the tap on the shoulder, or whisper in the ear. It is ALWAYS the 2 x 4…right upside the head.
And nothing of value was lost…
Cilantro is awesome fight me.
As we say in the south…the bitch done jumped the fence.
We can always hope but for now… Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Another coincidence- after the 60 Minutes segment…bet a bunch of info got deleted. Just ENJOY watching the cockroaches run, once the light comes on.
Such a sad moment for humanity. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of tyrants.
Absolutely no one:
That would be a real blow to humanity if it never came back on again.
From what I am hearing it is due to facebook withdrawing authoritative DNS routes. This is typically something that has to be done from the inside and will possibly take quite some time to resolve. I say let it burn.
I don’t remember who said it, but on the IRL podcast a couple days ago, it was suggested how much better life would be if Social Media were to collapse. I hope someone put a worm into the infrastructure that houses Zuck’s babies and takes it out for good. Imagine how much better we would be.
Amen from the crowd.
Let’s hope it goes on for days if not forever.