“If your game isn’t running as usual please note that there’s been an issue with Facebook login servers and the moment this gets fixed all will be back to normal,” puzzle game app Match Masters said on its Twitter account. Several users using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also facing issues.
WhatsApp, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform, was also down for over 35,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 9,800 users.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. The estimates were based on total Facebook and Instagram ad spending from major advertising agencies during January to August this year.ĭowndetector – which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform – showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. However, they also said that sabotage could also be a possibility, as per Reuters. A BGP is like the internet's navigation system.Īccording to security experts, an internal mistake could have caused the disruption. Murch said the core issue was that, "Facebook has withdrawn the so-called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route that contains the IP addresses of its DNS nameservers", as per The Wired. Troy Mursch, the chief research officer of cyberthreat intelligence company Bad Packets, said, “Facebook's outage appears to be caused by DNS however that's a just symptom of the problem.”
And its another blow to the firm after whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, leaked.
However, in this case, something more serious could have caused the issue. As a result of the several hours outages of Facebook, which has nearly two billion daily users, shares in the social media platform, dropped 4.9 lower on Monday, which cost the company 47bn (£34.5bn) off its market value. They can happen for a number of technical reasons and are relatively easy to resolve. DNS mishaps are quite common and most likely the reason behind the outage of any website. Facebook blamed the major outage on router work, AFP reported.Įarlier, The Wired suggested that the outage could have been due to its Domain Name System (DNS) becoming unreachable.ĭNS can be seen as the phone book of the internet.
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