As of Tuesday midafternoon (Nigerian time) Meta-owned social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger were down. More than 500,000 users reported Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger outages starting around 10:08 a.m. EST to Down Detector. Reports spiked at 10:30 a.m. EST. (Down Detector is owned by ZiffDavis, Mashable’s parent company.) There were over 72,000 posts on Twitter / X […]
Meta Platforms Inc. experienced an outage this afternoon that made Facebook, Instagram and Threads inaccessible worldwide for about two hours. The first user reports of downtime started emerging around 10 a.m. EST. Meta confirmed the outage shortly thereafter, stating in a note on its status page that “we are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our […]
When Facebook users had finished mocking the company over its calamitous global outage on Monday, October 4, many apparently flocked to rival apps in order to get back in touch with friends and family. The six-hour outage — caused by configuration changes to Facebook’s routers that prevented its computer systems from communicating in the usual way — also impacted Messenger, […]
Router configuration changes affected tools and systems employees used in day-to-day operations Facebook revealed in an official blog post on Monday evening that the six-hour outage across its platforms including Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and OculusVR were caused by configuration changes to its routers. Shortly before 5pm on Monday, the three social media services had confirmed on Twitter they were aware of issues […]
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