Facebook is not working. Global failure of FB, Messenger and Instagram
Facebook is the world's largest social networking site, where nearly 3 billion accounts have been registered. Its Messenger messenger and the Instagram service based on photos and video content are slightly less popular. What all three of them have in common today, October 04.10.2021, XNUMX, is that... they died.
At the moment, it is not known what caused the failure, how serious it is and how many people cannot use Facebook and Instagram. We also do not know when both sites will come back to life. Considering the fact that both websites were down at the same time, we can assume that the servers are at fault. Several people in the editorial office confirmed that the websites do not work in the browser version. Mobile applications display at most old posts from a few days ago.
The only popular social networking platform at the moment - Twitter, is flooded with news about Facebook, Messenger and Instagram crashes.
If you cannot post a message or view the board on both portals - you are not the only one.
What to do when Messenger is not working?
Tea, go out with the dog, you can also read our articles. And if you absolutely need to communicate with someone, you can call, send a text message or use other free messengers.
We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Goal (@Goal) October 4, 2021
The graph shows the reported problems, today you can see a significant increase and a sudden decrease just after the main failure. At the moment, there is no one to report crashes on the platform because there is no access to it.
Update 05.10/08/49 XNUMX:XNUMX
This time, what was unique about Facebook's long outage was that the problems affected more than just Facebook application users, but also the company's employees.
They did not enter the offices and were unable to do any work as downtime affected internal systems as well.
Overnight, Facebook posted an update about the downtime in a blog post dedicated to Facebook engineering . There they confirm that the downtime has also affected many of the company's internal tools and systems, writes Reuters.
Facebook reports that the downtime was caused by changes to the configuration of the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers.
- The error had serious consequences for the communication of our data centers, leading to a complete halt.
