
(Instagram was acquired in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014).įor lots of people their whole business model lost its profile on the internet - and associated sales.īear in mind previous outages lasted not much more than an hour. Needed telling they all belong to Facebook, they'll know full well after Of course once upon a time, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were three separate entities - but if anybody Hello literally everyone- Twitter October 4, 2021 They do business on social media after the major outage for Facebook,ģ.5 billion people/companies were left twiddling their thumbs - and inspecting Twitter and Downdetector on a regular basis! I'm guessing that quite a few businesses around the world are reassessing how Shares rose about half a percent in after-hours trade following resumption of service reported Reuters.Is it time to think about whether your art business is independent of social media - or too dependent on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp? Thank you for bearing with us.Īs the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9 per cent, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday, October 4.

We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry.

Thank you for bearing with us,” the company tweeted. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. įacebook’s engineering team apologised for the interruption of services and said they are working hard to restore complete access.

See the latest information with this recently updated post. The Facebook outage continues and has become the largest outage we’ve ever seen on Downdetector with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe. Several Facebook employees who declined to be named had told Reuters earlier that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in how internet traffic is routed to its systems.ĭ stated in a post that the Facebook outage has become the largest in its history with over 10.6 million reports from all over the world.
