“We are also seeing an increase in reports across many other online sites and services as the Facebook outage causes cascading impacts,” the blog post said. “Facebook is currently experiencing a rarely seen global outage that is taking out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.” As of 1pm PDT, Downdetector said it had seen more than 10.6m problem reports from around the world, with the majority coming from the US, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. In a blog post, Downdetector said the outage was global and the largest it had ever seen.

A map on the site showed, for instance, reports of outages. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.įacebook said it had “no evidence” that user data was compromised.įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp became inaccessible for large numbers of people at about 5pm UK time (12pm ET), with citing reports of problems from millions of social media users around the world. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication,” the statement said. In a later blog post, it said faulty configuration changes on its routers were the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage.

We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now,” Facebook tweeted. You can sign up to receive it directly here.“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. Last month, the social media giant experienced one of its longest ever outages, when millions of users around the globe faced trouble accessing the site, along with Instagram and WhatsApp for more than 24 hours.įacebook blamed the previous outage on a hack.Įach evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. Read more: Assessing WhatsApp's 5 years with Facebookįacebook has more than 1.52 billion daily active users, according to its website. The hashtags #FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter globally on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage. The issue has since been resolved, we're sorry for any inconvenience,' a spokesman told the Reuters news agency. 'Earlier today, some people may have experienced the trouble connecting to the family of apps. Hours later, the services were restored, according to a Facebook spokesperson. It showed the WhatsApp and Instagram issues were relatively lower by a count of outage reports from users. Read more: EU hails social media crackdown on hate speech The website also showed that WhatsApp and Instagram - both owned by Facebook - also experienced severe outages around the same time. CEST (1030 UTC) in much of the world.Īt one point, the site registered more than 14,000 outage reports from users, which is believed to represent just a fraction of those affected.

For the second time in a month, Facebook was not loading for millions of users in the northeastern US, Europe and parts of Asia on Sunday.ĭ, a website that monitors site outages, showed the social media giant went down at 12:30 p.m.

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