It's not yet clear how or why, but Facebook's routers essentially sent a message to the internet announcing that the company's servers no longer existed.

In the same way that air traffic controllers sometimes make changes to flight schedules, 'Facebook did an update of these routes,' Slim said.īut this update contained a crucial error.

Sami Slim of data centre company Telehouse compared BGP to 'the internet equivalent of air traffic control'. In an apologetic blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, said that 'configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication'.įacebook explained Tuesday the outage was 'caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making.'Ĭyber experts think the problem boils down to something called BGP, or Border Gateway Protocol - the system the internet uses to pick the quickest route to move packets of information around. PARIS: Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant. Although outages are not uncommon for websites and apps, several interconnected apps of the world's largest social media company going down at the same time is a rare occurrence.įB is currently trading at $323.04, down $19.97 or 5.82%, on the Nasdaq, on a volume of 26 million shares, almost double the average volume of 14 million shares.What actually caused the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage? The company did not reveal the reason for the outage, but it might be due to server issues. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,' Facebook tweeted. 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Facebook's own site would not load, while Instagram and WhatsApp were accessible, but could not load new content or send messages. According to the site, which monitors web traffic and site activity, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were down before Monday afternoon. Several thousands of users experienced outages on Facebook and its other social media apps. Facebook's stock slipped over 5% following the news. (FB) and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, suffered outages on Monday. (RTTNews) - Social networking giant Facebook Inc.

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