Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp go down for some in second outage this week

Date:
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:32:10 +0000

Description:
Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp go down for second outage in a week, though it seems far less widespread.

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Couldnt access Facebook, Instagram, or Whatsapp? Feeling deja vu? Facebooks services have gone down for some again, following a six-hour outage earlier this week that knocked out the companys apps and services across the globe.

Thankfully, this outage seemed far less widespread TechRadar has been able
to access Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, so were relying on outsider reports to determine how many users are affected. DownDetector , for
instance, reported a spike in outage reports starting around 2:30pm ET, but has been declining since and even at its peak was only a fraction of the numbers reported earlier this week. Facebook acknowledged the outage in a tweet at 3:22pm ET: Were aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Were working to get things back to normal as quickly
as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience. October 8, 2021 See more

The outage may have already been fixed, per a tweet from The New York Times reporter Mike Isaac, and was reportedly caused by a config change which was what took down all the services on Monday. (Facebook claims that today's outage wasn't related to the one earlier this week, per Isaac's previous
tweet .)

That earlier outage was prolonged by particular circumstances that locked further changes from being made and required a more dramatic fix of rushing a team to a California data center to make changes on-location, as was
reported.

Its unclear if the same cause and fix were needed, but the outage was certainly less impactful. Facebook had warned that services would take time
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