Discussion

• @sheeraf Sheera Frenkel on x

  Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren't working to access doors.

• @chadloder Chad Loder on x

  Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp 🤭

• @twitter @twitter on x

  hello literally everyone

• @facebook @facebook on x

  To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.

• @facebook @facebook on x

  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.

• @instagramcomms @instagramcomms on x

  Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we're on it! #instagramdown

• @facebookapp @facebookapp on x

  We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

• @schrep Mike Schroepfer on x

  *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Not only are Facebook's services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well. No one can do any work. Several people I've talked to said this is the equivalent of a “snow day” at the company.

• @cullend Cullen on x

  Lmao. Friend at Facebook confirmed they ended up bringing in a guy with an angle grinder to get access to the server cage

• @jack Jack⚡️ on x

  how much? https://twitter.com/...

• @mosseri @mosseri on x

  @noahkalina Them fighting words... but it does feel like a snow day.

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  If Facebook's monopolistic behavior was checked back when it should've been (perhaps around the time it started acquiring competitors like Instagram), the continents of people who depend on WhatsApp & IG for either communication or commerce would be fine right now. Break them up.

• @netflix @netflix on x

  When Instagram & Facebook are down. [Picture: Twitter punching everyone]

• @jgrahamc John Graham-Cumming on x

  Between 15:50 UTC and 15:52 UTC Facebook and related properties disappeared from the Internet in a flurry of BGP updates. This is what it looked like to @Cloudflare. https://twitter.com/...

• @radiohana Hana Baba on x

  Context for US folx- WhatsApp being down means total disconnect for many in the global south- it's not just for calling and texting, but sending & receiving money too. #WhatsAppDown

• @gavindyoung Gavin Young on x

  People making jokes about the Facebook services going down make me sick. Anyone who was using an Oculus headset at the time is currently trapped in VR, and if they die there then they die in real life.

• @jgrahamc John Graham-Cumming on x

  About five minutes before Facebook's DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook's ASN. https://twitter.com/...

• @aurabogado Aura Bogado on x

  The repercussions of WhatsApp being down in The Rest Of The World are vast and devastating. It's like the equivalent of your phone and the phones of all of your loved ones being turned off without warning. The app essentially functions as an unregulated utility.

• @jckarter Joe Groff on x

  woah that was quick https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea. Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.

• @gossithedog Kevin Beaumont on x

  This one looks like a pretty epic configuration error, Facebook basically don't exist on the internet right now. Even their authoritative name server ranges have been BGP withdrawn.

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy 🧐 Remember: WhatsApp wasn't created by Facebook. It was an independent success. FB got scared & bought it 💬 ht…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  another factor adding to the chaos: per a Source, Facebook employees can't receive external emails right now i imagine this will not make it easier to get things back online

• @gossithedog Kevin Beaumont on x

  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.

• @whatsapp @whatsapp on x

  @Twitter 👋 hello!

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  Facebook's Workplace and internal site are also having DNS issues where can FB employees file the SEV now? https://twitter.com/...

• @jack Jack⚡️ on x

  Signal is WhatsUp 🆙 https://signal.org/en/ https://twitter.com/...

• @jack Jack⚡️ on x

  @WhatsApp ... thought this was supposed to be encrypted...

• @dollyparton Dolly Parton on x

  Everyone showing up to @Twitter today while @Facebook @instagram @WhatsApp are down like... https://twitter.com/...

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  Facebook service outage is really a great data point for the argument that we should not have a global social media platform that dominates multiple lines of communication actoss various countries and regions

• @jennschiffer Jenn Schiffer on x

  mark zuckerberg just texted me on signal, said facebook took everything down so that all the news stories this week would be about downtime and not the whistleblower on 60 minutes. boy genius

• @secparam Ian Miers on x

  At 15:40 BGP started learning at a geometric rate, at 15:52 UTC it became sentient. At 15:54, thinking that Asimov's 3 laws of robotics sounded like a decent idea, BGPnet shut dowm Facebook.

• @juliendorra Julien Dorra on x

  Facebook brought Oculus down with them 🙁 https://twitter.com/...

• @krystalball Krystal Ball on x

  I see this whole system of allowing giant social media monopolies to control multiple critical modes of communication is working out well.

• @benjaminenfield @benjaminenfield on x

  So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  a bunch of friends have texted me asking for a basic explanation as to what the hell happened to knock off all of Facebook so:

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  I do appreciate Chrome's absolutely idiotic guess about what's going on https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Facebook went down because of all the things you said about it

• @gossithedog Kevin Beaumont on x

  Instagram are on AWS Route53, and they're also down (no resolution). https://t.co/NGAlwaVpZl

• @s8mb Sam Bowman on x

  The Facebook outage shows that Whatsapp, FB and Instagram need to be regulated like infrastructure - we need them to be as reliable and well-run as public utilities like water, electricity, roads and railways are.

• @s8mb Sam Bowman on x

  It also shows that Facebook is a monopoly we simply cannot live without, as I argued during the outage over Twitter, Slack, Discord, Google Talk, iMessage, and Signal. https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  FB and IG being down in the US for a day is probably not a huge deal. WhatsApp being down for a day in the many countries where it is the primary online communication platform is a huge deal. https://twitter.com/...

• @g_bonfiglio Giorgio Bonfiglio on x

  A bunch of Facebook networks has just disappeared from the internet: https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice). It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch. #facebookdown

• @malwaretechblog @malwaretechblog on x

  Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are all down due to a BGP configuration error, which means it's only a matter of time before someone tweets a pew pew map screenshot and claims it's a global cyber attack.

• @googleuk @googleuk on x

  What do we do now? Gmail?

• @brittania_ Brittany Boo on x

  tumblr when the rest of social media falls and we all come crawling back https://twitter.com/...

• @thetweetofgod God on x

  Instagram and Facebook are currently not working, as are democracy, society and a healthy sense of self.

• @facebookapp @facebookapp on x

  We're coming back online! Thank you all for your patience and we sincerely apologize to everyone affected by the outage. https://twitter.com/...

• @josecaparroso José Caparroso on x

  Latin America lives on WhatsApp. I am surprised by so many people underestimating how catastrophic this downfall has been.

• @patrickc Patrick Collison on x

  BGP is the dark magic of the internet. Important, fraught, fully understood by no-one, its employment often followed by severely adverse consequences.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  hello we've traveled back in time to 2010 and Facebook is down https://t.co/nb06SFdmR3

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Has anyone calculated how many ad $$$ Facebook is losing out on every second its down?

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  FACEBOOK: “we'll run everything our company does through our own products and platforms, that way we'll have the tightest corporate culture imaginable!” *FACEBOOK accidentally deletes its products and platforms from the entire internet* FACEBOOK: “oh no”

• @edmarkey Ed Markey on x

  Facebook is down right now, so it's a great time to listen to whistleblower Frances Haugen. https://twitter.com/...

• @reddit @reddit on x

  @instagram @Twitter How are you doing, Instagram social media manager?

• @benschwartz_ @benschwartz_ on x

  Mark Zuckerberg has concluded his research into rating every woman on Earth and has now shut down Facebook. Thank you all for your cooperation.

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  Another example of this error in thinking. Centralization leads to things failing together, but it also means the resources to run things more reliably. One reason today's failure made news is that it's really rare. https://twitter.com/...

• @kayajones Kaya Jones on x

  Maybe you can now fix the issues my account has had. Over 100,000,000 impressions & somehow my numbers don't move on growth. Hmm 🤔 https://twitter.com/...

• @williamlegate William LeGate on x

  Apparently, the Facebook outages are due to a misconfigured routing configuration file pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. The change locked employees out of their own network & requires physical, local intervention at the server-level to fix. https://arstechnica.com/...

• @swodinsky Shoshana Wodinsky on x

  same thing with the middle east—for my friends and family back in israel, whatsapp *is* texting. it's literally how they keep in touch with family, friends, medical providers, local merchants............. etc etc etc https://twitter.com/...

• @alexweprin Alex Weprin on x

  To phrase it another way, Facebook could lose as much revenue today as BuzzFeed made in all of 2020 ($321 million).

• @renireni Reni Eddo-Lodge on x

  It isn't right that a single company holds the only key to what millions of people around the world consider to be vital infrastructure. If you in anyway make your living online, I hope yesterday served as a grave warning. https://twitter.com/...

• @snowden Edward Snowden on x

  Imagine if Facebook's infrastructure team decided now was the moment to go on strike. It would be historic: https://twitter.com/...

• @keitholbermann Keith Olbermann on x

  And a mighty ROAR went up from the grateful crowd https://www.bbc.com/...

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  Facebook's outgoing chief technology officer says the outage is down to “networking issues.” https://twitter.com/...

• @carolafrediani Carola Frediani on x

  “most likely a case of Facebook network engineers pushing a config change that inadvertently locked them out (....)The withdrawn routes do not appear to be the result of nor related to any malicious attack on Facebook's infrastructure” #facebookdown https://arstechnica.com/...

• @repdeanphillips @repdeanphillips on x

  Facebook & Instagram ⬇️ Happiness ⬆️

• @abierkhatib Abier on x

  Plz leave it down for the sake of humanity https://twitter.com/...

• @kassydillon Kassy Dillon on x

  It's pretty hilarious that Facebook has to use Twitter to announce that their platform is broken. https://twitter.com/...

• @sggrc Steve Gibson on x

  Someone on the Facebook recovery effort has explained that a routine BGP update went wrong, which in turn locked out those with remote access who could reverse the mistake. Those who do have physical access do not have authorization on the servers. Catch-22.

• @catholicdad420 @catholicdad420 on x

  twitter rn kinda has the vibe of when they turn the lights off during an assembly and everyone starts making noises

• @zackmaril Vint Serp on x

  After being asked a bunch, the best metaphor I got for what's going on is that somebody mistakenly removed a bunch of signs on the highway. The roads and bridges are totally fine and once the crews repair the signs, the Facebook empire will be back on the Internet again. https://…

• @lavenderdys Maxi on x

  https://twitter.com/...

• @baelalayla Layla Benson on x

  This Facebook engineer and the ship engineer who blocked the Suez Canal should probably get a drink together rn https://twitter.com/...

• @justin_ling Justin Ling on x

  I see tweets flying around claiming Facebook has been TOTALLY DELETED or hackers are hawking the personal info of 2 billion people on the dark web (👻👻👻) In reality: Their DNS servers are down. Unclear why, but nobody stole Facebook from its safe. https://twitter.com/...

• @bplewis @bplewis on x

  I mean in the plus side, tremendous amounts of disinformation aren't being amplified right now

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  The weirdest idea floating around today is that an independent WhatsApp would not be capable of having its own outages. https://twitter.com/...

• @chrissyteigen Chrissy Teigen on x

  everything's down!! honestly take it all away from us

• @reesew Reese Witherspoon on x

  All other social platforms today: Kaput. Twitter: [Thank You Gif]

• @donaldjtrumpjr Donald Trump Jr on x

  Strange that hours after a whistleblower calls out Facebook saying they engaged in a “betrayal of democracy” that Facebook and other companies it owns are totally down. I'm sure it's a coincidence.

• @jimmfelton James Felton on x

  Instagram and Facebook users checking out Twitter while they're down https://twitter.com/...

• @letsgomathias Christopher Mathias on x

  You know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds when I log into Facebook. 'Cause I think maybe I'll just get a 'this site can't be reached.' No goodbye, no ‘see ya later’, no nothin'. You just left. I don't know much, but I know that. https://twitter.com/...

• @campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x

  From the inbox: People are apparently betting on when the Facebook and WhatsApp outage will be resolved. That's a first! https://twitter.com/...

• @fb_engineering @fb_engineering on x

  To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.

• @johnolilly John Lilly on x

  @bgurley Petty, cheap shot. We should want all platforms to be robust, not take shots at techies trying to provide the best service they can. (Would have been cheap to take shots at Twitter during the years they struggled too.)

• @peterpham Peter Pham on x

  I think a lot of people today realized how important FB/Whatsapp/Insta/messenger are. Commerce, communication, & entertainment for a few hundred million people went dark for half a day. Ripple effect of that I'm sure is bigger than one can imagine.

• @chrissyteigen Chrissy Teigen on x

  who is this mysterious hero

• @fark @fark on x

  @Reddit ... How do you do, fellow kids?

• @phillyd Philip DeFranco on x

  Thoughts and prayers yall. This is the time. SEND EM! 🙏🙏🙏 https://twitter.com/...

• @peterhamby Peter Hamby on x

  They took down Finsta

• @drericding Eric Feigl-Ding on x

  Facebook learning about karma today. Need more popcorn 🍿— who thinks this is going to get worse? https://twitter.com/...

• @mcclure111 Mcc on x

  I would just like to note that if it wasn't for FB's buying spree, Facebook would be down, but WhatsApp and Oculus services would be up right now. To say nothing of Instagram Network resiliency is downstream from antitrust enforcement

• @bettemidler @bettemidler on x

  Facebook and Instagram are down. I guess that's a good thing; a few hours respite for the poor kids who are bullied incessantly on those sites. All the adults in the room are hoping they stay down.

• @chrismessina @chrismessina on x

  Honestly this seems like payback for all those poor souls whose Facebook and Instagram accounts have been terminated without recourse over the years. TRY GETTING YOUR USERNAME BACK NOW, ZUCK! 😂 https://twitter.com/...

• @ryanntweets_ Ryan on x

  instagram's IT team trying to resolve the issue https://twitter.com/...

• @alistaircoleman Alistair Coleman on x

  If you need to know what's up with Facebook in the simplest possible terms, here you go. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @buzz Buzz Andersen on x

  Might explain why people are perceiving problems with other sites. https://twitter.com/...

• @andraydomise Brother Q on x

  To get a sense of how damaging this is, imagine a large shopping mall and all the roads leading to it were instantly replaced with soil and vegetation, as if they never existed to begin with https://twitter.com/...

• @sggrc Steve Gibson on x

  Meanwhile... there's been a noted global decrease in reports of teenage depression and poor self image. Mental health is on the rise. But fear not, BGP is sure to be restored soon. :-/

• @djpie D.J. Piehowski on x

  Fingers crossed that Zuck chose the only admirable path: Deleting it all and hydrofoiling into the sunset 🙏🏻 https://twitter.com/...

• @danielghajjar @danielghajjar on x

  Since we're moving WhatsApp to Twitter now https://twitter.com/...

• @williamturton William Turton on x

  Trump would have tweeted three times about the FB outage already. Twitter just isn't the same anymore

• @mattblaze Matt Blaze on x

  Imagine if FB owned AWS (or something with a similar footprint) right now.

• @repkenbuck Rep. Ken Buck on x

  Facebook being down today shows exactly why we need competition. Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp, through anticompetitive acquisitions. Anticompetitive practices always hurt consumers and competition. It's time for antirust. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  Facebook (accidentally, we assume) sent an update to a deep-level routing protocol on the internet that said, basically, “hey we don't have any servers any more xoxo”

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  but Facebook runs EVERYTHING through Facebook

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  Normally, this would be quite easy to fix. you just send another update saying “oh, don't worry, we have servers, they're here, xoxo”. Things still break, it takes a while for the message to spread to all corners of the internet, egg on face, but liveable

• @jdan Jordan Scales on x

  Absolutely wild insider info from a friend who works at facebook (name and photo hidden obviously) https://twitter.com/...

• @copyconstruct Cindy Sridharan on x

  Yep, a configuration change indeed! A mini postmortem of today's Facebook outage is now up. https://engineering.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  “We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

• @briankrebs @briankrebs on x

  “We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

• @nick_craver Nick Craver on x

  @fb_engineering Will there be a in-depth public postmortem so others can learn and improve from today's outage?

• @conormyhrvold @conormyhrvold on x

  Also, props for authorship and having an infra exec take ownership of the outage. Never an easy thing to do, and would've been an easy out to have it come from some generic The Facebook Team or something like that.

• @briankrebs @briankrebs on x

  FB: Configuration changes on backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt. https://engineering.fb.c…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Facebook engineers on today's outage: Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers caused the issue. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way the data centers communicate. https://engineering.fb.com…

• @dnsmichi @dnsmichi on x

  Interesting insight into Facebook's BGP implementation. https://engineering.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @bgurley Bill Gurley on x

  We now know which platform you go to if there is something super important to convey. $TWTR https://twitter.com/...

• @briankrebs @briankrebs on x

  Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://facebook.com/ or https://instagram.com/ got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?

• @briankrebs @briankrebs on x

  From trusted source: Person on FB recovery effort said the outage was from a routine BGP update gone wrong. But the update blocked remote users from reverting changes, and people with physical access didn't have network/logical access. So blocked at both ends from reversing it.

• @evacide Eva on x

  October is now BGP Awareness Month.

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Zuck weighs in on the outage: “Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about.” https://twitter.com/...

• @eastdakota Matthew Prince on x

  Here's our best explanation from what we can see on how @Facebook disappeared from the Internet: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @cloudflare @cloudflare on x

  “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Well it can, and here's how. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @craigthomler Craig Thomler on x

  @kcarruthers Technically it was BGP, but impact was mainly DNS. Essentially this emphasizes the importance of accurate maps in digital space as well as in physical space. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @eastdakota @eastdakota on x

  Nothing we're seeing related to the Facebook services outage suggests it was an attack. Most likely explanation is that the company's Internet routes (BGP) were withdrawn by mistake during maintenance. #hugops

• @zsk Zoe Kleinman on x

  Good explanation here on the Facebook fiasco from Cloudflare https://twitter.com/...

• @gte Guy English on x

  Our long national nightmare has been restored.

• @fooinha Paulo Pacheco on x

  Great blog post from @Cloudflare and how they managed to keep their services running smoothly despite “a tsunami of additional DNS traffic” following Facebook's authoritative servers DNS outage “Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet” https://blog.cloudflare.com…

• @thingskatedid Kate on x

  BGP is one of those protocols nobody appreciates until it stops working

• @davidgerard @davidgerard on x

  cloudflare blogged about the Facebook outage, pretty good explanation, including of BGP (the thing FB screwed up): https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @troyhunt Troy Hunt on x

  It's always DNS... “Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet” https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @jkosseff Jeff Kosseff on x

  Please don't blame Section 230. Please don't blame Section 230. https://twitter.com/...

• @jpiterak Jason Piterak on x

  @briankrebs Cloudflare has a good explainer on what appears to have happened. What is crazy is that they didn't appear to have an out-of-band management channel in place to reconfigure routers - and needed to go onsite to reconfigure. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ ...

• @katebevan Kate Bevan on x

  This is a bit nerdy but pretty accessible explanation of what's happened. Kudos to Cloudflare for pulling this explainer together and sharing it so quickly https://twitter.com/...

• @davidgerard @davidgerard on x

  from NANOG, on the Facebook outage: they meant to drop BGP peering to one network, accidentally dropped *all* of them, and now can't get back in to un-drop them. Other difficulties. This is a normal IT fuckup, just a very public and spectacular one. https://mailman.nanog.org/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  need to issue a correction: the team dispatched to the Facebook site had issues getting in because of physical security but did not need to use a saw/ grinder. echoes on sourcing side, it was my mistake and I own it. Apologies

• @fb_engineering @fb_engineering on x

  As our platforms are coming back online, we wanted to share some more information about today's outage and what caused it. https://engineering.fb.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem. (It's chaos to even try to contact folks, but people are resorting to zoom, discord etc) https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mistressmatisse Mistress Matisse on x

  I have sympathy for the working people who lost business, because their main marketing platform suddenly just: went away. Now imagine that you're a sex worker, and this is what happens, sooner or later, to every platform where you try to establish and conduct your business. https…

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  The Facebook outage is so bad that the company is sending engineers to data centers to fix it.. could be awhile! https://www.theverge.com/...

• @noghar Niall L on x

  Amazing coincidence this happens the day after a new whistleblower exposed FB's horrendous 'profit-at-all-costs, what's-a-bit-of-genocide-between- friends, insurrection- gets-clicks' policies. Look Buzz, an alien! https://twitter.com/...

• @saraschaefer1 Sara Schaefer on x

  Chernobyl season 2 https://twitter.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  A widespread outage is crippling Facebook's sites and apps and its employee systems like phones and badges. The cause of the issue is unclear. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  Facebook's internal communications platform, Workplace, also went down on Monday, leaving most employees unable to do their jobs. Two Facebook workers called it the equivalent of a “snow day.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @baddiel David Baddiel on x

  They are literally trying unplugging it and plugging it in again. https://twitter.com/...

• @digiphile Alex Howard on x

  5 hours in, @NYTimes reports the root cause of the global outage for @facebook apps remains unclear. Members of FB's security team “said it was unlikely that a cyberattack had taken place because one hack was unlikely to affect so many apps at once.” https://www.nytimes.com/... h…

• @willguyatt Will Guyatt on x

  JUST IN: Live pictures from Facebook's server farm. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattblaze Matt Blaze on x

  1. A proper computer science education includes the study of physical security and locks. 2. An angle grinder was absolutely the right thing to do here. Server cages are cheap. https://twitter.com/...

• @andreasharsono Andreas Harsono on x

  Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are inaccessible, taking out a vital communications platform used by billions and showcasing just how dependent the world has become on a company that is under intense scrutiny https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @signalapp @signalapp on x

  Signups are way up on Signal (welcome everyone!) We also know what it's like to work through an outage, and wish the best for the engineers working on bringing back service on other platforms #mondays

• @marclacey Marc Lacey on x

  The Facebook outage was a planetary-scale demonstration of how essential the company's services have become for doing business, arranging medical care, conducting virtual classes, carrying out political campaigns, responding to emergencies and much more. https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @robertcaruso Robert Caruso on x

  “[F]or [people] worldwide whose personal and professional lives play out on WhatsApp, the instant messaging app's blackout was more than a mere inconvenience. [WhatsApp is a popular alternative where] telecommunications can be prohibitively expensive.” https://www.washingtonpost.…

• @sophlouisehall @sophlouisehall on x

  me trying to get in contact with people with WhatsApp down https://twitter.com/...

• @lewis_goodall Lewis Goodall on x

  WhatsApp is down. Not sure how much longer British politics will last tbh

• @septimusajprime @septimusajprime on x

  African parents since whats app is down https://twitter.com/...

• @tomphillipsin Tom Phillips on x

  WhatsApp down. Brazilian democracy agradece.

• @emilyctamkin @emilyctamkin on x

  I think many Americans can't appreciate just what a big deal it is that WhatsApp is down