#Insta fb whatsapp down software

It also showed that despite the presence of Twitter, Telegram, Signal, TikTok, Snapchat and a bevy of other platforms, nothing can easily replace the social network that over the past 17 years has effectively evolved into critical infrastructure.

The company said the changes interrupted the communication, which had “a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.” In Monday night’s statement, Facebook blamed changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s outgoing chief technology officer, later tweeted “sincere apologies.” Regarding the internal failures, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it feels like a “snow day.”

#Insta fb whatsapp down software

The stricken content-delivery company in that case, Fastly, blamed a software bug triggered by a customer who changed a setting.įor hours, Facebook’s only public comment was a tweet in which it acknowledged that “some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app” and said it was working on restoring access. The last major internet outage, which knocked many of the world’s top websites offline in June, lasted less than an hour.

“This is epic,” said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc, a network monitoring and intelligence company.