The platform currently has 3 billion users. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. We even saw reports of Facebook employees being unable to get through security doors and even speak to each other online. Everything that works through Facebook including 'Log In With Facebook' was effectively shut down. The outage marked the longest stretch of downtime for Facebook since 2008, when a bug knocked the site offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. And because Facebook hosts WhatsApp, Instagram, Workplace and more, these websites couldnt be 'found' either. DNS, short for Domain Name System, is like a phone book for websites. ThousandEyes, a network monitoring service owned by Cisco, said in an email that the outage was the result of DNS failure. Reports on showed the outages appeared to be widespread, but it was unclear how many users were unable to access the apps. All content on the site may be up-voted or down-voted by. Thank you for bearing with us.'Īll three platforms stopped working shortly before noon ET, when the websites and apps for Facebook's services were responding with server errors. Registered members can contribute to the site with content such as images, text, videos and links. 'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. 'To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry,' Facebook said in a statement. Some of the services are not yet fully functioning - for example, some users are still reporting problems posting new content to Instagram.

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