Facebook down; Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger also part of major outage

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 2:36pm |

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have apparently all gone down in a major outage.

The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms all stopped working around 11:30 a.m. ET Monday morning according to the site Down Detector. The outage affects nearly 7 billion users between the three platforms.

Users going to Facebook's site saw an error page or an onscreen message that said, "Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can." [....]

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https://www.lohud.com/story/tech/2021/10/04/facebook-instagram-outage-whatsapp-down-october-2021/5991289001/?csp=chromepush

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Just as the NYT prophecies foretold....https://t.co/RnbYPR0zM0
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021

"Dogs and cats began lying down together in harmony, people of opposing political parties emerged from their homes and talked to each other like rational human beings, and multiple antifa and white supremacist groups were seen laying down their arms."
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021

Oops.

"At publishing time, the utopia had begun to collapse as people discovered Twitter was still functioning."
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) October 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 2:51pm

Goes with Antonio's comment:

One interesting insight from FB whistleblower @FrancesHaugen_’s interview last night was her relaying a comment from an EU politician about how optimizing for Facebook’s algorithms was causing political leaders to take more partisan positions. That’s the populist feedback loop.
— Kate Starbird (@katestarbird) October 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:38am

https://t.co/EK6mhjZuhg pic.twitter.com/iGxWiypALL
— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) October 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 5:09pm

Apparently this guy understands what's going on and in this thread is trying to techsplain for normal people. (Not that I care that much about this incident, as I hardly use any of their apps--but keeping in mind a lot of sophisticados use Instagram, so not just the Facebook masses are affected this time. And it could happen with others.)

1/n OK, let me explain what's going on with the Facebook right now.

First, let's talk "routing". The Internet is a mesh of routers that forward packets. Packets go from source through a series of routers until they reach their destination.
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 5:27pm

his points 19 and 20 are fun schadenfreude, especially for those who have had Kafka-like experiences with technology:

19/ But here's the FUN part: it's not just Facebook's DNS that's failed, but their internal network as well. Reports are that employees are locked out of their own buildings.https://t.co/af4jhd6ecY
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

20/ You can imagine right now that employees are no applying sledge hammers to concrete walls to make a hole so they can get into the server rooms to fix the BGP problem, because their badges don't work.
— Robᵉʳᵗ Graham #PcapsOrItDidntHappen (@ErrataRob) October 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 5:33pm

Apparently far from amusing to a lot of small businesses around the world:

Whatsapp down. So many of Brazilian small biz is built up on it as means to facilitate comms with consumers. Now it's all down. Most folks here don't even keep contacts in their phones, just the app and they can't use it. Many areas are in post disaster and this makes it worse.
— Blood Hawk | Pfizer /2 (@BloodHawk5) October 4, 2021

What is the current definition of a utility anyways?

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 6:15pm

Now Gmail, TikTok and Snapchat users complain apps are slowing down#InternetShutdown #Gmail #TikTok #Snapchat https://t.co/p7RVhR9SFb
— The Independent (@Independent) October 4, 2021

QUICK DOWNLOAD OR PRINT WHAT YOU WANT TO READ cause it's starting to look like the whole shebang is going to fall down!

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 7:50pm

Burn baby burn. Is this Fight Club?

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 8:19pm

He's right, one of the things that's neat about Twitter is the tongue-in-cheek stuff by the individuals behind big corporate accounts (institutional accounts too-NJ.gov's twitter account comes to mind)

LMFAOOOOO I LOVE TWITTER #InternetShutDown pic.twitter.com/aW6VXkGphR
— ً (@TYRISPRINT) October 4, 2021

In a weird way he surely didn't mean, it verifies the famous Mitt Romney line that corporations are people too, my friend.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 8:01pm

A self-described Burmese-American in NYC to Facebook Engineering:

fb sucks b/c you employ woke progressives from california
— Make Burma Great Again! (@Down_W_Tatmadaw) October 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/05/2021 - 10:33pm

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