Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Suffer Second Outage This Week: Twitter Reacts
Facebook and its sister companies WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger suffered a second outage this week on Saturday, forcing Facebook companies offline
Facebook and its sister companies WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger suffered a second outage this week on Saturday after experiencing a six-hour-long lapse in services earlier on Monday.
The outage on Monday marked a historic service blackout for the company. The last time the company went completely offline was in 2008, when Facebook was starting to gain popularity.
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What caused the new Facebook outage?
Saturday's outage lasted for roughly two hours and affected all Facebook services including WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and even Workplace around the globe. ¡°We¡¯re so sorry if you weren¡¯t able to access our products during the last couple of hours", Facebook announced on Twitter after the second outage.
It's still unclear what caused the new Facebook shutdown. Even then, Facebook claims that the new outage has nothing to do with happened on Monday.
We¡¯re so sorry if you weren¡¯t able to access our products during the last couple of hours. We know how much you depend on us to communicate with one another. We fixed the issue ¡ª thanks again for your patience this week.
¡ª Facebook (@Facebook) October 8, 2021
Also read: Whistleblower Alleges Facebook's Dismal Response To Hate Speech In India
On Monday, Facebook's data centres that connect the company globally suffered shutdowns, forcing all its platforms offline. Not even Facebook employee internal systems were working at that point, making the outage historic.
Reuters
The centralised model of Facebook caused not just one, but all services to shut down at the same time. This incident highlights the perils of having a single central authority running some of the world's favourite social media platforms.
A Twitter user aptly captured the mood
People coming to Twitter to check whether Instagram is down or not:#Instagram #instagramdown #Messengerdown #WhatsApp #WhatsAppDown #Facebook pic.twitter.com/VAzWQKfAsQ
¡ª ?? ?? ? ? (@_iamvish) October 8, 2021
LOL
Mark Zuckerberg after seeing everyone post about Facebook and Instagram being down AGAIN #instadown pic.twitter.com/KQxO4rAj8O
¡ª Nenad (@neso301) October 8, 2021
Far-fetched? You tell us
Whatsapp,Facebook Instagram are down.
¡ª Meaty Man¨¦ (@MeatyXtra) October 8, 2021
Meanwhile at twitter Headquarters:#facebookdown #instagramdisabled #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/b9bgEyhxqh
A Rihanna fan took this opportunity to highlight her standing abilities as opposed to Facebook
facebook down
¡ª ? (@fentxyy) October 8, 2021
instagram down
snapchat down
but Rihanna is still standing. pic.twitter.com/GgL4ngmvNL
Gold
*Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are down again*
¡ª Jafrin? (@antares_ojo_o) October 8, 2021
Everyone coming back to twitter:pic.twitter.com/fsa32oOLDu
Facebook's big week
The world heavily relies on Facebook-owned applications for communication, with 3.5 billion regular users. Its sister company WhatSapp has one billion regular users.
This unprecedented series of outages comes amid a whistleblower revelation about Facebook's inner working whereby a former employee accused Facebook of prioritising profit over the well-being of its users.
Reuters
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Frances Haugen also alleged that the company's current trajectory would have far-reaching effects on democracy and free speech in a testimony to US lawmakers, while urging them to help Facebook.
What do you think is causing Facebook to go offline so often this last week? Let us know in the comments below. For the latest in technology and science, keep reading Indiatimes.com.
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