

Once all Facebook apps were fully back online, the company issued a blog post explaining that "configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers" were to blame for bringing company services to a standstill. Departing Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer tweeted a public apology, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted similar sentiments to Facebook. Pacific time, the services slowly began coming back online - though they were hardly fully available, with Instagram returning intermittent 5xxx server errors. Nearly seven hours later, at around 3:42 p.m. The outages, which were global, appear to have been caused by a server configuration issue. "Me enjoying all the memes on twitter after instagram and Facebook is down," the tweet said.By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the internet.Same with WhatsApp btw.Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform. Facebook, whose shares fell nearly five percent over the outage, has stressed there is 'no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime'. One user summed up the outage meme situation with a clip of a kid using a swing at a park as a building burns in the background. Between Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, 'billions of users have been impacted by the services being entirely offline', the Downdetector tracking service said. "Instagram down guess it is time to go be slutty on LinkedIn," one tweet said.Īnother tweet showed a picture of a person putting their hands on their hips and looking unimpressed, bearing the caption, "When is working just fine, but no one notices." Other social media companies, like Snapchat and LinkedIn, were also briefly trending on Twitter in relation to the outage.

The caption reads, "Mark trying to fix Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook at the same time." Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger coming back. In another tweet, a different user posted a photo of a worker dealing with a huge, tangled mass of power lines. The documents revealed that Facebook knew of many harms that its services were causing. One user tweeted a photo of a person staring at electrical equipment, adding the caption, "Mark zuckerberg at WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook headquarters right now." Other users joked about the crisis confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg given the outage. "Instagram and Facebook users trying to navigate Twitter," the caption read. Section 230 of the Communications Decency. Only Twitter made it to the second game."Īnother tweet included the oft-memed clip of The Weeknd looking confused as he walked through a maze of mirrors and lights to reach the stage to perform at this year's Super Bowl. The Supreme Court is examining a short but potent law this week that, if altered, could rearrange the modern internet. Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. Similarly, one user tweeted a photo of people hugging and celebrating, writing that the image showed Twitter's headquarters after the outage.Īnother user made reference to Netflix's hit show "Squid Game" with an image of the show's giant robot doll, writing, "WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook eliminated. Instagram also commented on Twitter's post, saying, "Hi and happy Monday," adding the spiral eyes emoji in a nod to the chaos of the outage. In the latest update, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says that Facebook is experiencing.

#Instagram whatsapp messenger are down many update#
Twitter itself tweeted, "Hello literally everyone." WhatsApp commented, "Hello!" with the waving hand emoji, to which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded, "thought this was supposed to be encrypted." Update 4:30 p.m ET: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have now been down for five hours. "Maybe Facebook and IG will never come back and society will be much better," one user wrote.Ī lot of memes joked about Twitter gaining popularity as users of Facebook's apps flocked there during the outage. "Maybe Facebook is being repaired by the same guy who repairs the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine," another user wrote, referring to widespread complaints about the fast-food chain's ice cream availability.Īnother tweet showed a photoshopped picture of a Spirit Halloween banner over Facebook's 1 Hacker Way sign, captioned, "woah that was quick."
