Facebook Suffers the Most Severe Outage in its History

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Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday.

The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn monthly users today. Facebook's main product, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected. The cause of the interruption has not yet been made public. "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," Facebook said in a statement. "We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."

In response to rumours posted on other social networks, the company said the outages were not a result of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, known as DDoS - a type of cyber-attack that involves flooding a target service with extremely high volumes of traffic. Estimates suggest the issue began around 16:00 GMT on Wednesday. While Facebook's main service appeared to load, users reported not being able to post. Those on Instagram were not able to refresh feeds or post new material. Facebook Messenger's desktop version did not load - but the mobile app appeared to allow the sending of some messages; however, users reported glitches with other kinds of content, such as images. WhatsApp, Facebook's other messaging app, had similar problems. A third-party outage map suggested the problem was global - DownDetector monitors posts on other social networks for users mentioning a loss of service elsewhere.
 

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Lots of youngsters are going to have a heart attack. :p
Yep, youngsters would not know what to do with them selves without facebook.:eek:
The fact that people don't know what to do with their lives after Facebook stops working is an example of how pitiful humans have become :cautious:
Talk about ignorant.

Did you know many SMB (small and midsize businesses) use services provided by Facebook. So during any outage, businesses face problems; such as contacting and responding to customers, making sales, customer support etc.
 
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I always find myself in the spectrum that isn't affected whatsoever, WhatsAPP been working without issues during the entire week.

As for Facebook, I don't use it anyway.
 

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Talk about ignorant.

Did you know many SMB (small and midsize businesses) use services provided by Facebook. So during any outage, businesses face problems; such as contacting and responding to customers, making sales, customer support etc.
On another side it shows that Facebook has become some kind of ''Powerplant'' for almost anything on the internet and everyday life. A blow to it, and everything crumbles.
 

varunriatgamer

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was very bad facebook is becoming a really bad exp couldnt post any of my client posts for the day very frustrating also traffic dropped very heavily
 

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