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All suffering outage. Not Telmex this time.

sm1mex wrote:All suffering outage. Not Telmex this time.

I thought it was just me.... no big deal...I'm usually in FB jail anyway...but just heard it's total... I imagine the addicts are going nutz.

Facebook down in SE SAT using Totalplay.

USA today info


Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have apparently all gone down in a major outage.

The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms all stopped working around 11:30 a.m. ET Monday morning according to the site Down Detector. The outage affects nearly 7 billion users between the three platforms.

Users going to Facebook's site saw an error page or an onscreen message that said, "Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can."

Instagram and WhatsApp are not showing new or updated content. On Instagram, messages including "Couldn't Refresh Feed" or “5xx Server Error” appeared.

Facebook did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

Most likely because of the whistleblower segment on 60 Minutes last night.

Best thing that could happen........lol.

Not only were all the sites down, I read that Facebook employees couldn't even get into the buildings their offices are in, because their electronic door passes wouidn't work.

I can just imagine all the Instagram "influencers" having nervous breakdowns, and having to communicate their freaked out state to all their friends via !gasp! email or an actual phone call.

It was a configuration error.

"So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as primary modes of communication . . . they don't know how to contact the people in their lives without it."
.        -- Rachel Tobac, CEO of cybersecurity company SocialProof Security
.            in an interview with CNN on Oct. 4, 2021

I have Signal on my phone. https://signal.org/en/ It is a good alternative, and is used widely around the world (so popular in China it was banned by the government), but not much around here. It's only good if everyone else is on it. But it is supposedly more secure than Whatsapp, and if course is not owned by Zuckerberg.

What's the matter with emailing?