"It shows how much Facebook is now part of critical infrastructure in the US and around the world." Whatsapp has two billion users - for many of those people it is their only form of communication and they felt very vulnerable without that and without the ability to do business. "They run their businesses through Facebook. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world this was about their ability to do business. 'It's not just about posting pictures and status updates. Sky's US correspondent Greg Milam, at Facebook HQ in California, said: "Even when it started to get back to normal it was very, very slow and sporadic before people had everything back up and running. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center Regarding the internal failures, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it feels like a "snow day". People using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also said to be facing issues.įor hours, Facebook's only public comment was a tweet in which it acknowledged that "some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app" and said it was working on restoring access. Problems were reported across the world, including in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Russia, and New Zealand. The outage comes after a whistleblower said that the world's largest social network is prioritizing profits over users' safety.įacebook's stock was down more than 5% on Monday afternoon.Twitter Due to your consent preferences, you’re not able to view this.
Instagram's public relations team also tweeted about the outage, saying they were having "a bit of a hard time right now."įacebook said its engineers determined the problem originated with a networking issue that interrupted communications between its data centers. Was data compromised after Facebook outage?įacebook said no user data was compromised across its platforms.įacebook previously said that they were aware of this issue and were working to get thing back to normal as quickly as possible.
About 5:40 p.m., some users were able to access the platforms, but not all functions were back. The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms stopped working about 11:30 a.m.
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