As of 1pm PDT, Downdetector said it had seen more than. That forced staffers to resort to non-Facebook email and communications tools. Facebook is currently experiencing a rarely seen global outage that is taking out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

The DNS error also prevented some Facebook employees from being able to access email and using company-issued mobile phones, and knocked out its internal communications system, Workplace, the New York Times reported. “Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result. We prepare for these moments, but today things didn’t go exactly as planned,” Twitter Support said in a tweet at 4:55 p.m. “Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. People flocked to Twitter for updates, as well as memes making fun of the situation.

The blackout of Facebook and Instagram drove up usage of Twitter, which acknowledged that the surge stressed its own servers. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger suffered a widespread outage on Monday. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Janardhan wrote, adding, “We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.” In a blog post Monday evening, Facebook VP of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said the company’s engineering teams identified the root cause of the as “a faulty configuration change” on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers. Experts identified Facebook’s problems Monday as related to a configuration change in the company’s domain name system (DNS) entries, which effectively made Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger temporarily invisible to internet users worldwide.įacebook CTO Mike Schroepfer apologized for the issues in a tweet Monday afternoon, attributing the downtime to unspecified “networking issues.”

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