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Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Sunday-service-outages dept.

"We were all free of Facebook's iron grip on the internet for a few hours," writes Gizmodo.

An anonymous reader quotes their report. Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp experienced widespread outages on Sunday for the second time in the past month (and the third time this year), with issues reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. ET and extending until around 9:00 a.m. ET. Per Bloomberg, Facebook and Instagram domains ceased to be accessible by users during that time period, while Messenger and WhatsApp were also non-functional... Users worldwide appeared to be impacted, with Bloomberg noting that Twitter users everywhere from the U.S. to Israel and Thailand were complaining about the outage.

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  1. They fixed it? by ilsaloving · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn... Oh well. Maybe next time.

    1. Re:They fixed it? by Alain+Williams · · Score: 1

      These outages seem to be coming along more frequently ... maybe there is hope!

    2. Re:They fixed it? by AndrewFlagg · · Score: 1

      its crazy. time to read the sunday funnies. i think the newspaper corporations are behind it.

  2. Whats App Down! Yay! Great!!! by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1
    Elections are on in India. Being flooded with WhatsApp videos. One set of cousins send videos making your blood boil about BJP and NarendraModi. Another set of cousins about Congress party and Rahul Gandhi.

    Hey, hey, cool it down both sides, messages provoke angry replies from both groups.... Welcome respite.

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  3. Re:It's a good thing for America by PPH · · Score: 1

    give praise to the Lord, America

    His Facebook page is down.

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  4. Re:Didn't notice by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    I didn't notice either. I should check my Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp accounts for the latest news...

  5. Re:What if by msauve · · Score: 1

    "god is a myth"

    Clapton is very much alive.

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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  6. Thought of the day by nehumanuscrede · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering nothing of value was lost during the outage, that should tell you just how valuable the service actually is.

    1. Re:Thought of the day by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Yeah except a messaging system providing encrypted services to billions of people around the world which is in some countries used as an exclusive form of communication and has been shown to not bow down to government pressure to sell out users.

      Next time don't engage that anti Facebook section of your brain and you may see how stupid your comment was.

    2. Re:Thought of the day by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 1

      There are other messaging apps that let people have encrypted chats with the added benefit of not giving any data to Facebook.

  7. Oh that’s why by ruddk · · Score: 2

    I was wondering why there were so many people on in the forest. On the trail, I met other people on bikes, people on horses and even some were even walking. 2/3 around the trail however, people seemed to had vanished. I guess they got reconnected to the mothership. :)
    Cheers.

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  8. The Internet was Still Working by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    I could still get to the porn.

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  9. Still screwed up... by rnturn · · Score: 1

    ... at late afternoon Central time. Only showing 3-4 items in one's news feed. I'm sure Mark's spear-heading the team that's working on it.

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  10. Oh Noes! by WCMI92 · · Score: 1

    Facebook is out!

    Zuckerberg can't steal information!!!!

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  11. Maybe I slept through it by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

    I slept through it, or maybe I was awake. Either way I didn't notice it at all.

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
    1. Re:Maybe I slept through it by antdude · · Score: 1

      I was awake, but didn't use them to notice.

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  12. Outrage by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As soon as I saw Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp I was primed to read 'outrage' rather than 'outage'.

    So glad I quit that bad habit.

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  13. Re:What if by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1

    Well, at least it makes a change from the usual Trump vs. everything else lunacy that every thread eventually degenerates into.

  14. So What!! by DERoss · · Score: 1

    I did not wake up until 8:00am PDT, which is 11:00am EDT and after the outage was fixed. In any case, I do not participate in any social networking. So the outage (and the prior outages) had zero impact on me.

  15. Crisis hotline overloaded? by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    Considering how many people live and die by Fakebook, instagram and what not, I'm surprised the crisis hotlines haven't been flooded with calls!

    1. Re:Crisis hotline overloaded? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 1

      How would they find the crisis hotline as the primary place to find information was down?

  16. Re:Waaaaah by thomn8r · · Score: 1

    What utter bullshit. Just logout already. You can do it.

    You obviously do not understand the underlying problem

  17. Re: What if by aglider · · Score: 1

    You are a moron whenever you insult someone else. No matter if that's for the religion, the sports or the sex.

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