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Backbone router setup mistake caused worldwide Facebook outage
Around 11:50 p.m. CEST on Monday, Facebook's global outage was mostly resolved. After over six hours, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger are back online. The failure was caused by an improper update setting, the company claims.
During the downtime, almost 3.5 billion users lost access to their data. By Monday night, Facebook's services had gradually returned. Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are now working for most. The apps may still be unreliable in the future due to simultaneous connections from several devices. Around 4 a.m., WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart announced on Twitter that everyone could use the service again.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized via Facebook. "Sorry for any inconvenience today, because I know how much you rely on us to keep in touch with the people you care about."
Facebook said the incident occurred while updating its systems. Facebook's router system has a bug that prevented servers from communicating. "We suspect the reason of the outage was a bad configuration," the business claimed. Facebook says it has no indications that data has also been leaked due to the outage. The problems also prevented employees from accessing the internal systems.
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#5952049 Posted on: 10/05/2021 08:59 PM
Oh No!!!! They fixed it.
Oh No!!!! They fixed it.
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#5952150 Posted on: 10/06/2021 03:07 AM
Oh No!!!! They fixed it.
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#5952224 Posted on: 10/06/2021 09:09 AM
Unfortunately yes.
Oh No!!!! They fixed it.
Unfortunately yes.
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#5952227 Posted on: 10/06/2021 09:17 AM
Great!!! - this way a lot of people finally kept their opinions for themselves...and also discovered their family members and (real) friends as "humans"...
On the serious side the only bad thing was the failure of whatsapp - I use it extensively since it's free compared to my phone sms provider...
I think that "the social media" is the real zombie apocalypse of our days - people on the streets walking silently with their faces on their phones or inside, sitting, again with their faces stuck to their phones with no reaction to anything except if you take their phone or a failure like this happens.
Social media should have stopped at discussion forums and blogs - facebook, instagram and all the other social crap are doing more bad than good nowadays...and twitter - I really don't understand where is the fun in waking up going to the bathroom and "first tweet of the day: I just took a crap - it was great because I ate a lot of fibers..." - who cares???
...and of course they fixed it -because all good things must come to an end!
Great!!! - this way a lot of people finally kept their opinions for themselves...and also discovered their family members and (real) friends as "humans"...
On the serious side the only bad thing was the failure of whatsapp - I use it extensively since it's free compared to my phone sms provider...
I think that "the social media" is the real zombie apocalypse of our days - people on the streets walking silently with their faces on their phones or inside, sitting, again with their faces stuck to their phones with no reaction to anything except if you take their phone or a failure like this happens.
Social media should have stopped at discussion forums and blogs - facebook, instagram and all the other social crap are doing more bad than good nowadays...and twitter - I really don't understand where is the fun in waking up going to the bathroom and "first tweet of the day: I just took a crap - it was great because I ate a lot of fibers..." - who cares???
...and of course they fixed it -because all good things must come to an end!
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There will be a point when it costs too much to keep the servers running and upgraded to keep up with all the photos and updates people post every second on FB, WA, IG.