Previously to this, Facebook’s site also crashed in 2008, but back then, it only had 150m users.įastly outage: Just one customer caused internet problems which sent Reddit, Amazon and Guardian website down Social media criticism The outage lasted 14 hours, and again affected most of its website, messaging apps and associated platforms. There have been many disruptions to its service before before, but the last time Facebook suffered a significant even like this was in 2019.

Even if we don’t use Facebook, we will invariably come into contact with the other platforms associated with it: Instagram and WhatsApp. Websites going down is not unheard of, but the fact that Facebook is so big and used by roughly 2.89 billion monthly active users means it touches many aspects of our lives. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.” How it compares to previous outages The statement added: “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication. It added that there was “no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime”.

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