Why did Facebook go down?įacebook blamed a 'faulty configuration change' for the issues in a post on Tuesday morning from its vice president of infrastructure. 'Given the level of back-ups, regional co-location servers, the Facebook FNA node network, their data centre fabric, their neural-network fabric interconnecting data centre and machine learnings applications – this kind of global outage should, in 2021, be inconceivable - or at least lasting minutes,' Neil Campling, co-head of Mirabaud Securities' Global Thematic Group, told The National. The memo also revealed a team of employees was dispatched to a California data centre to attempt to manually restart the social media company's servers. 'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now,' the company's spokesman, Andy Stone, said in a tweet. Across the globe, users of Facebook and its sister sites were unable to load content or were greeted with error messages.įacebook and its affiliated apps began to return online for some users about 5:45pm ET, around six hours after the incident began. The error-reporting website Downdetector showed the services first stopped working around 11:45am Eastern Time (7:40pm in the UAE). 'To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry.'

' Facebook services coming back online now - may take some time to get to 100 per cent,' its chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in a tweet. Facebook on Monday began restoring access to its platform as well as to Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger after a global outage lasting about six hours shut out many of its 2.7 billion users, left some of the company’s employees idle and prompted a public apology.

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