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Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com) 64

"We were all free of Facebook's iron grip on the internet for a few hours," writes Gizmodo.

An anonymous reader quotes their report. Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp experienced widespread outages on Sunday for the second time in the past month (and the third time this year), with issues reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. ET and extending until around 9:00 a.m. ET. Per Bloomberg, Facebook and Instagram domains ceased to be accessible by users during that time period, while Messenger and WhatsApp were also non-functional... Users worldwide appeared to be impacted, with Bloomberg noting that Twitter users everywhere from the U.S. to Israel and Thailand were complaining about the outage.
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Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

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  • His ideas can really help!

  • by ilsaloving ( 1534307 ) on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:56PM (#58436758)

    Damn... Oh well. Maybe next time.

  • Elections are on in India. Being flooded with WhatsApp videos. One set of cousins send videos making your blood boil about BJP and NarendraModi. Another set of cousins about Congress party and Rahul Gandhi.

    Hey, hey, cool it down both sides, messages provoke angry replies from both groups.... Welcome respite.

  • Thought of the day (Score:5, Insightful)

    by nehumanuscrede ( 624750 ) on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:32PM (#58436902)

    Considering nothing of value was lost during the outage, that should tell you just how valuable the service actually is.

    • Yeah except a messaging system providing encrypted services to billions of people around the world which is in some countries used as an exclusive form of communication and has been shown to not bow down to government pressure to sell out users.

      Next time don't engage that anti Facebook section of your brain and you may see how stupid your comment was.

      • There are other messaging apps that let people have encrypted chats with the added benefit of not giving any data to Facebook.

  • by ruddk ( 5153113 ) on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:51PM (#58436964)

    I was wondering why there were so many people on in the forest. On the trail, I met other people on bikes, people on horses and even some were even walking. 2/3 around the trail however, people seemed to had vanished. I guess they got reconnected to the mothership. :)
    Cheers.

  • I could still get to the porn.

  • ... at late afternoon Central time. Only showing 3-4 items in one's news feed. I'm sure Mark's spear-heading the team that's working on it.

  • Facebook is out!

    Zuckerberg can't steal information!!!!

  • I slept through it, or maybe I was awake. Either way I didn't notice it at all.

  • Outrage (Score:4, Interesting)

    by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * on Sunday April 14, 2019 @05:57PM (#58437200) Homepage Journal

    As soon as I saw Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp I was primed to read 'outrage' rather than 'outage'.

    So glad I quit that bad habit.

  • I did not wake up until 8:00am PDT, which is 11:00am EDT and after the outage was fixed. In any case, I do not participate in any social networking. So the outage (and the prior outages) had zero impact on me.

  • Considering how many people live and die by Fakebook, instagram and what not, I'm surprised the crisis hotlines haven't been flooded with calls!

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