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The worldwide crashing of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has caused pandemonium among social media users.
The three Facebook-owned apps appeared to go offline Monday morning, with error messages popping up for consumers.
DownDetector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, reported Facebook had thousands of reported outages from users since before noon ET.
Monday’s crash marks the worst outage for Facebook since 2008 when a bug caused Facebook to be offline for nearly a day, according toCNBC, which also reported that there was an hour-long outage back in 2019 when Facebook blamed the issue on a server configuration change.
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In June, a major internet outage knocked many of the world’s top websites offline for less than an hour, theAssociated Pressreported.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, two Facebook employees toldThe New York Timeson Monday that “it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues.”
Facebook and Instagram quickly became trending topics with Twitter even trolling the tech giant, tweeting, “hello, literally everyone.”
The cause of Monday’s outage remains unclear.
source: people.com
