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At the peak of the outage. tens of thousands of users of the social media apps reported problems to Downdetector, with almost 90,000 reports of issues with Facebook as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern.
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger have gone down in what appears to be a huge outage at parent company Meta. On Facebook, affected users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on ...
All of Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – went down on Wednesday in a major outage that affected users around the world.. The company’s systems ...
Downdetector is an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services.. The information that is provided by the site is based upon user outage reports, which are collected from various sources, including the page for each website on Downdetector itself and Twitter.
By 15:50 UTC, Facebook's domains had expired from the caches in all major public resolvers. A little before 21:00 UTC, Facebook resumed announcing BGP updates, with Facebook's domain name becoming resolvable again at 21:05 UTC. [14] On October 5, Facebook's engineering team posted a blog post explaining the cause of the outage.
Facebook Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male. [121] All four were charged and convicted of hate crimes. [122] Facebook Live was also used by Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.
Meta says most issues have been resolved after apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads were experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon and errors were reported by people across the internet.
In 2017, Facebook added "Messenger Day", a feature that lets users share photos and videos in a story-format with all their friends with the content disappearing after 24 hours; [109] Reactions, which lets users tap and hold a message to add a reaction through an emoji; [110] and Mentions, which lets users in group conversations type @ to give ...