The social media giant, which is the second largest digital advertising platform in the world, was losing about $545,000 in U.S. Several Facebook employees who declined to be named said that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal routing mistake to an internet domain that was compounded by the failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same domain in order to work. "We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. "To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry," the team tweeted on Monday. Soon after the outage, Facebook acknowledged users were having trouble accessing its apps but did not provide any specifics about the nature of the problem or say how many users were affected by the outage.įacebook's engineering team apologized as the apps started to come back online. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Centerfor Internet & Society. Security experts said the disruption could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible. Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, fell 4.9% on Monday, amid a broader sell off in technology stocks. Prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly įacebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (9:30 pm IST), in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had everseen.Īround 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the three apps. Outage that paralyzed the social media platform.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet on Tuesday early morning, nearly six hours into an
0 kommentar(er)
