Ohe services of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp returned to work at 23:XNUMX on Monday, after having registered problems worldwide, for about six and a half hours. However, they returned to problems moments later.
After several hours down, the applications started working again, but irregularly and without access to all the resources. According to the Downdetector portal, this was the biggest failure of its kind ever recorded, with 10,6 million problem reports reported worldwide.
The responsible for the area of technology of Facebook (CTO), Mike Schroepfer, today asked "sincere apologies" to all users affected by the interruption in services, but without revealing the reason that led to the "blackout".
“We are experiencing network issues and the teams are working as quickly as possible to purge and restore the service as quickly as possible,” Mike Schroepfer said today on his Twitter account.
*Sincerely* 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
- Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been down around the world for several hours, both on mobile and desktop. Since about 16:30 pm, when accessing Facebook, all internet users found was an error message. On Instagram, the 'feed' is not updated. In the case of the WhatsApp messaging application, when users send messages, a clock icon appears and the message is not sent.
Facebook lost 4,89% on the New York Stock Exchange, after the platform and other applications had registered a general fall in various parts of the world that had not yet been resolved by the time the stock exchange closed.
