Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down?

[polonus]

Anyone on the situation in other countries.
Here on the coast of the North Sea (Netherlands) Whatsapp is down.
Also Instagram and Facebook for that matter.
DNS does not seem to work. Has been ongoing for quite some hours to-day.

What is the situation in the US of A? Someone?
What is going on there?

polonus

[Pondus]

I dont use any of them but it is on the News here that they are down

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

[Pondus]

Also see this.   https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/03/tech/facebook-whistleblower-60-minutes/index.html

[bob3160]

Also see this.   https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/03/tech/facebook-whistleblower-60-minutes/index.html

My suspicious mind links these two items.
I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook is trying to clean up its act due to all the
crap being exposed by the whistleblower.

[polonus]

Thanks. Pondus, I am not on Facebook either, but global downtime must have some impact on social media networking.

This must cost them money by the sec. Started at 10:15 am on this Monday as I have it.
In Europe we are nearing midnight as in Britain it is already well past midnight there.

For business folks this seems up again: https://status.fb.com/

@ bob3160.
Average people these days seems to forget, they digest new information almost instantly within a very short attention frame.
Facebook was also into the Cambridge Analytica scam thingie, but as I said people are very soon to forget about issues.
  Specially those folks hooked up on their services (I mean to say "depending on their services") 

pol

[bob3160]

Thanks. Pondus, I am not on Facebook either, but global downtime must have some impact on social media networking.

This must cost them money by the sec. Started at 10:15 am on this Monday as I have it.
In Europe we are nearing midnight as in Britain it is already well past midnight there.

For business folks this seems up again: https://status.fb.com/

@ bob3160.
Average people these days seems to forget, they digest new information almost instantly within a very short attention frame.
Facebook was also into the Cambridge Analytica scam thingie, but as I said people are very soon to forget about issues.
  Specially those folks hooked up on their services (I mean to say "depending on their services") 

pol

Hooked is the right word. I've had quite a few panic emails asking me for help to restore their
Facebook account because they can't access it.

[polonus]

Some kids phoned their high school, to complain to the lady on the phone that the Internet was down.
Bullocks.

It was probably a switch at Facebook's BGP-routers.
Someone did a very clever thing, that apparently did not work to give the desired result.

The following sevices were also affected for a short while, now up and operational again: https://status.adguard.com/

polonus

[midnight]

Facebook's working now, at least it is where I live.

[polonus]

Hi -midnight,

Roger, back on again in Europe as well. Just 7 minutes ago.
All the best to you, -midnight, and G*d Bless,

polonus a.k.a. Damian

[DavidR]

I dont use any of them but it is on the News here that they are down

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

I never noticed either, as I'm not on twitter, come to that I haven't got a single social networking account and I can't see that changing any time soon

[SpeedyPC]

Zuckerberg loses $8 billion during the crippling Face (shit) book outage. I've never used Face (shit) book, because, I DON'T TRUST THEM!!!

[bob3160]

Social Media just like any other internet interaction will collect lots of your data.
Want to stay private, stay of the internet.
For most of us, that's just not practical.

[bob3160]

Here is Facebooks explanation for yesterdays outage,
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/

[Asyn]

Aftermath: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712191/telegram-70-million-new-users-facebook-outage-surge-whatsapp