This is just absolutely heartbreaking…
05.10.2021 - 00:23 / ok.co.uk
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger are all down on Monday 4 October and it's sent the internet into chaos.The social media blackout has caused its users to flood onto other platform such as Twitter to voice their frustrations over the tech glitch. At the time of publication, the reason for the outage is unknown, and they are yet to get back up and running, over four hours since they initially stopped working.
This is just absolutely heartbreaking…
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Facebook’s having a rotten week on both the public relations and apparently the technical side. According to the Downdetector site that lets users plug in outages and graphs them, complaints started to spike around 2:15 pm ET about problems accessing apps and peaked Instagram and Facebook Messenger are having a similar issues, all acknowledged by FB in a tweet apologizing for the inconvenience.
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The historic crash of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp left millions of people all over the world unhappy and, honestly, just quite unsure what to do with themselves of a Monday evening.
Facebook has blamed a “fault configuration change” for leaving 3.5 billion users unable to access the company’s services for nearly six hours last night.The company – which also includes Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram – crashed yesterday afternoon at around 4pm GMT, preventing users across the global from refreshing their feeds or accessing messaging services. It wasn’t until 10pm that services were restored.
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later identified as a DNS — or domain name services — issue. However, as of this writing it’s still not known what caused that problem.All three sites went down the morning after former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen came forward as the whistleblower who filed at least eight complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission in September.
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