- October 4, 2021
- Posted by: Sean Cooper
- Category: Tech Updates
Facebook, Instagram, And WhatsApp Are Back Up And Running. Here’s What You Need To Know:
According to users, after being down for more than six hours, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are back up and running.
However, some services are still not fully operational – for example, Instagram is still experiencing difficulties updating new posts.
We apologize to the people and businesses around the world who depend on us,” Facebook said in a statement. “We have worked hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to announce that they are now available again. We appreciate your patience.”
Facebook did not disclose the cause of the problem:
Shortly before noon ET, all three platforms went down when Facebook’s websites and apps responded with server errors. Reports on DownDetector.com indicated the outages were widespread, but it was unclear how many users were affected.
According to ThousandEyes, a network monitoring service owned by Cisco, the outage was caused by a DNS issue. It serves as a directory of websites.
It was the longest outage for Facebook since 2008, when a bug knocked it offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. Facebook currently has 3 billion users.
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, has apologized in a tweet posted to Twitter.
“Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook-powered services right now,” Schroepfer wrote. “We are experiencing issues with our network, and our teams are working as quickly as they can to identify the issue and fix the issue as quickly as possible. .”
In 2019, the same outage took about an hour. Facebook blamed an update to the server configuration for this outage.
The issue comes a day after a whistleblower who leaked confidential data to The Wall Street Journal and Congress disclosed her identity before appearing on “60 Minutes.”
The documents, which were first revealed in an assortment of Journal stories, showed that Facebook’s top executives were aware of the negative effects of Instagram on younger users and that the algorithm of Facebook enabled the spread of fake news as well as other misinformation.