Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all faced outages on Monday
Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out numerous of its 2.7 billion international customers. Reports of outages and disruptions started pouring in at about 11:30 EST on Monday – but Facebook’s loss turned into obtain for other platforms. With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all facing disruptions, Twitter is exactly where all the action was on Monday. From Instagram head Adam Mosseri to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, every person flocked to the microblogging platform as the Facebook-owned services shut out its customers.
Signal, the private messaging app endorsed by Edward Snowden, saw millions of men and women signing up as WhatsApp faced a prolonged downtime, according to Bloomberg. Millions of new customers joined the app on Monday, Signal announced on Twitter. The messaging service also received an endorsement from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Responding to a tweet from Edward Snowden urging men and women to switch to Signal from WhatsApp, Mr Dorsey quipped: “Signal is WhatsUp.”
Signal is WhatsUp
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— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021
Downdetector, a service that monitors reports of outages, mentioned the Facebook service outage is the biggest it has ever seen. The outage prompted an apology from Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and a slew of memes and jokes on Twitter, with the official account of the microblogging platform itself joined the meme-fest.
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021
“Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about,” Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on Tuesday as services started returning on the web. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now,” he mentioned in his post.
Meanwhile, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that it was a difficult day at work as millions of customers failed to access the photo and video sharing platform.
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When one Twitter user recommended “Instagram should stay offline forever”, Mr Mosseri responded: “Them fighting words… but it does feel like a snow day.”
Them fighting words… but it does really feel like a snow day.
— Adam Mosseri ???? (@mosseri) October 4, 2021
Several Facebook personnel told New York Times technologies reporter Ryan Mac that they had been unable to work due to the outage. “No one can do any work. Several people I’ve talked to said this is the equivalent of a ‘snow day’ at the company,” the reporter tweeted.
Facebook blamed its October 4 outage on a “faulty configuration change”.
“We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime,” the corporation mentioned in a weblog post.