Many people have started to piece together the core of what happened to Facebook, and it’s simple to understand at first but excruciatingly technical to grasp fully. Mike Schroepfer OctoWhat caused the Facebook outage?

We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook communications teams all went to Twitter (of course) to drop “it’s not just you” messages.

Just in case you were wondering how unexpected this outage was, it took quite some time before any official communications went out, and when they did, they were quite sparse. And this wasn’t some small or regional issue - this was every service, in every location, completely dead. The outages hit the websites, apps, and related services of everything in the Facebook network. PT, the services had for the most part returned to working order, albeit with some cobwebs left to shake out, leaving everyone collectively scratching their heads and wondering how an outage of this scale happened. PT, Downdetector started to show a sharp spike in reports of outages - though as we look back, users were discussing unsent messages and broken apps even earlier.Īs of 4 p.m. Well, here’s one way to start a week off on the wrong foot: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all down for several hours on Monday.

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