

Only Twitter made it to the second game."Īnother tweet included the oft-memed clip of The Weeknd looking confused as he walked through a maze of mirrors and lights to reach the stage to perform at this year's Super Bowl. Similarly, one user tweeted a photo of people hugging and celebrating, writing that the image showed Twitter's headquarters after the outage.Īnother user made reference to Netflix's hit show "Squid Game" with an image of the show's giant robot doll, writing, "WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook eliminated. Instagram also commented on Twitter's post, saying, "Hi and happy Monday," adding the spiral eyes emoji in a nod to the chaos of the outage. Twitter itself tweeted, "Hello literally everyone." WhatsApp commented, "Hello!" with the waving hand emoji, to which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded, "thought this was supposed to be encrypted." "Maybe Facebook and IG will never come back and society will be much better," one user wrote.Ī lot of memes joked about Twitter gaining popularity as users of Facebook's apps flocked there during the outage.

We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible."Maybe Facebook is being repaired by the same guy who repairs the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine," another user wrote, referring to widespread complaints about the fast-food chain's ice cream availability.Īnother tweet showed a photoshopped picture of a Spirit Halloween banner over Facebook's 1 Hacker Way sign, captioned, "woah that was quick."
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Krebs added that the reason for the DNS change is unknown at this point, saying it “could well have been the result of an internal, system-wide change or update that went awry.”įacebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, who has announced that he plans to step down from the post in 2022, said in a tweet Monday afternoon, “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook-powered services right now. The DNS is a critical piece of the internet’s infrastructure that translates human-readable names (like ) into numeric IP addresses for computing devices.Īccording to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the DNS records for and “got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables,” he wrote in a tweet. The cause of the outages across Facebook’s apps appeared to be related to a configuration change in the company’s domain name system (DNS) entries. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown.” Instagram’s PR account on Twitter posted shortly afterward, “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” ET, the company said, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.

In a message posted to Facebook’s main account on Twitter at 12:22 p.m.

Outages were also reported by users in other countries around the same time, per DownDetector. ET Monday, according to monitoring service DownDetector. user reports of problems with Facebook and Instagram started to spike around 11:35 a.m. Instagram’s site displayed a “5xx Server Error” and its app showed an error message that said, “Couldn’t refresh feed.” In addition, users of Facebook and Instagram were unable to post anything to the respective services during the outage. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can” and the Facebook app was not loading some content. On Facebook’s website, an error message Monday said, “Sorry, something went wrong. The company, in the spotlight over accusations by a whistleblower that the company prioritized profits over safety, saw its flagship Facebook app as well as Instagram and other apps go down for many users Monday before noon ET. The company’s WhatsApp and Messenger apps also were down, per user reports. Facebook and Instagram users reported widespread outages Monday, as the social media giant appeared to be again experiencing serious technical problems.
