Facebook Down!
- techtigerinc
- Mar 14, 2019
- 2 min read
Its happened before of course! But that didn’t stop the internet from freaking out about it!
Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram suffered an outage on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019, some time around 12.52pm EST.
While Facebooks main service appeared to load, users reported being unable to post. Some Instagram users were unable to refresh feeds or post new content. For other users, Facebook Messengers desktop version did not load, and users reported difficult posting images, though users appeared to be able to send messages on the mobile app. A few reports suggest that WhatsApp, Facebooks other messaging service, and Facebook Workplace, a service used by businesses to communicate internally, had similar challenges, though this is unconfirmed.
The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150 million users. Today Facebook has 2.3 billion users.
The cause of the outage has not yet been made public. However Facebook said in a statement, “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps...We’re working to resolve the issues as soon as possible.”
The company denies that the outages were caused by a hack. A NETSCOUT engineer has attributed the outage to an accidental BGP routing leak from a European ISP to a major transit ISP, which was then propagated onwards to some peers and/ or downstreams of the transit ISP, which resulted in the disruption. Tom Thomas, a professor at Tulane University, in the United States, doesn’t quite agree that the outage was caused by a route leakage though he suggested that a route leakage could have contributed to the outage event Facebook faced yesterday.
During the outage, many users, particularly those who work with the affected social media products, turned to Twitter to vent their frustrations, sharing jokes and memes. The hashtags #FacebookDown and #InstagramDown were used more than 150,000 times. Needless to say, the impact of the outage was felt globally, and some are saying that the financial impact of the forced downtime will be in the millions of dollars.
This brings a new momentum to the fears of some politicians, like US democratic senator, Elizabeth Warren, who have spoken about the consequences of allowing tech giants to continue to grow unchecked.
Sources:
www.bbc.com
www.techcrunch.com
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