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how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9
— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has concluded his research into rating every woman on Earth and has now shut down Facebook. Thank you all for your cooperation.
— john carpenter's ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) October 4, 2021
Sorry, @jack, they don’t take bitcoin. Only personal information. https://t.co/TwjN2SA5bk
— Dave Pell (@davepell) October 4, 2021
People making jokes about the Facebook services going down make me sick. Anyone who was using an Oculus headset at the time is currently trapped in VR, and if they die there then they die in real life.
— Gavin Young (@GavinDYoung) October 4, 2021
there's that pesky "some people" again https://t.co/NT7IK3W1hj
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 4, 2021
There's Ancient Sysadmin Wisdom in not using your public domain for internal / corporate things, specifically for outage scenarios. https://t.co/ZrgQ6aCDLR
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) October 4, 2021
Facebook’s down but Oculus apps that are downloaded load up. AltspaceVR is fine
— Scott Stein (@jetscott) October 4, 2021
Signal is WhatsUp
— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021
? https://t.co/zpRrxf9qKP https://t.co/T23l7Ih6NQ
This one looks like a pretty epic configuration error, Facebook basically don't exist on the internet right now.
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) October 4, 2021
Even their authoritative name server ranges have been BGP withdrawn.
Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 4, 2021
Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.
Based on the Q2 earnings for Facebook, about $26M worth of ads would have run on Facebook during the two hours it's been down so far.
— Jameson Fleming (@JamesonFleming) October 4, 2021
If emailing someone at Facebook they will still likely get your email albeit delayed. Your email server will be queuing the email with a temporary failure and retry over the course of the next day. SMTP is still pretty good protocol for asynchronous communication.
— Dane Knecht (@dok2001) October 4, 2021
if facebook is down where will I get medical advice from a man sitting in a truck
— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) October 4, 2021
From the inbox: People are apparently betting on when the Facebook and WhatsApp outage will be resolved. That's a first! pic.twitter.com/9gRysaDkTI
— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) October 4, 2021
I mean in the plus side, tremendous amounts of disinformation aren’t being amplified right now
— BPLewis (@BPLewis) October 4, 2021
In observance of Facebook being down, let’s all share our favorite stories of democracy working in hopeful ways and coolest evidence-based reporting. Bonus points for uplifting others in comments ?⬇️
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2021
Someone on the Facebook recovery effort has explained that a routine BGP update went wrong, which in turn locked out those with remote access who could reverse the mistake. Those who do have physical access do not have authorization on the servers. Catch-22.
— Steve Gibson (@SGgrc) October 4, 2021
If this doesn't turn out to be a disgruntled employee that watched 60 Minutes last night I'll be disappointed https://t.co/THCHhgyM1y
— Alastair Coote (@_alastair) October 4, 2021
"facebook is down" is one thing but "facebook is down and they can't fix it because they locked themselves out of the house and they can't talk to each other because facebook is down" is funnier than any joke you could write
— Fiora (@FioraAeterna) October 4, 2021
i deleted my joke about someone forgetting to renew instagram dot com - turns out https://t.co/R8GyAZRFjV
— Todd Vaziri: Aspect Ratio Influencer (@tvaziri) October 4, 2021
DON'T SET YOUR PHYSICAL DOOR LOCKS TO NEED THE VERY SAME DNS ENTRY THAT YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM USES BECAUSE SHIT MIGHT GO WRONG. https://t.co/Z6sovVQuSF
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) October 4, 2021
Has anyone calculated how many ad $$$ Facebook is losing out on every second its down?
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 4, 2021
So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw
— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021
Bidding starts at....one beeleon dollars! pic.twitter.com/MleGagQB1C
— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021
woah that was quick pic.twitter.com/xt9IWCip5j
— Joe Groff (@jckarter) October 4, 2021
Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://t.co/qHzVq2Mr4E or https://t.co/JoIPxXI9GI got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?
— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 4, 2021
Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem.
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 4, 2021
(It's chaos to even try to contact folks, but people are resorting to zoom, discord etc) https://t.co/nb06SFdmR3
Facebook’s apps are basically THE way you access the internet/communicate in a lot of big countries. Wild to see an extended outage at this scale. https://t.co/2a0wdV7Euq
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) October 4, 2021
Probably just higher-ups mass deleting evidence from servers in a raw panic https://t.co/1LpjAXMGsH
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) October 4, 2021
Instagram and Facebook are currently not working, as are democracy, society and a healthy sense of self.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 4, 2021
Between 15:50 UTC and 15:52 UTC Facebook and related properties disappeared from the Internet in a flurry of BGP updates. This is what it looked like to @Cloudflare. pic.twitter.com/PFw5FR2W5j
— John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) October 4, 2021
Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice).
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 4, 2021
It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch.#facebookdown
Me after switching between my wifi and data only to realise that instagram and facebook are down #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/QOC3ZCqBni
— #5 (@S_11v4) October 4, 2021
mark zuckerberg just texted me on signal, said facebook took everything down so that all the news stories this week would be about downtime and not the whistleblower on 60 minutes. boy genius
— jenn schiffer (@jennschiffer) October 4, 2021
Facebook experiencing a global blackout for all external and internal services at the DNS level is extremely bizarre and bad https://t.co/f0izVinLio
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) October 4, 2021
Facebook internal memo: "We are receiving reports that several FB services are down (Internal Tools, Workchat, Workplace, Workplace Rooms, FB, IG, WhatsApp, etc.). This appears to be a DNS issue that is impacting both internal and external access to our tools and apps"
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 4, 2021
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021
Phrase of the moment: "configuration error" https://t.co/TPQRvhGU6A
— Mike Elgan (@MikeElgan) October 4, 2021
Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp ? pic.twitter.com/8TaU2eR1mm
— @jack lets nazis target my family (@chadloder) October 4, 2021
if you hate us so much see how long you can do without us, you’ll be out of your minds by weds
— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) October 4, 2021
Trump would have tweeted three times about the FB outage already. Twitter just isn’t the same anymore
— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) October 4, 2021
After Facebook gets network back up I expect a long period of instability. Rebooting a distributed system of this size is hard. They will have cold caches and systems that need other systems to bootstrap. #hugops
— Dane Knecht (@dok2001) October 4, 2021
Might explain why people are perceiving problems with other sites. https://t.co/myBFzKZK7t
— Buzz Andersen (@buzz) October 4, 2021
What do we do now? Gmail?
— Google UK (@GoogleUK) October 4, 2021
Like the Taliban, all he had to do was wait. pic.twitter.com/D3GftQVC3s
— Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) October 4, 2021
The day Facebook deleted itself. https://t.co/HKlxWV6Atp
— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) October 4, 2021
hello
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 4, 2021
we’ve traveled back in time to 2010 and Facebook is downhttps://t.co/nb06SFdmR3
Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place. #facebookdown
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 4, 2021
The repercussions of WhatsApp being down in The Rest Of The World are vast and devastating. It's like the equivalent of your phone and the phones of all of your loved ones being turned off without warning. The app essentially functions as an unregulated utility.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) October 4, 2021
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook App (@facebookapp) October 4, 2021
The outage is also affecting some services that offer Facbeook login, including Pokémon GO: https://t.co/QJDCMizln0
— Chance Miller (@ChanceHMiller) October 4, 2021
don’t turn facebook back on
— lauren (reformed arc) (@ActNormalOrElse) October 4, 2021
Facebook and Instagram being down is a good opportunity for you to reacquaint yourself with your soul.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 4, 2021
Signal’s not down
— alex hern (@alexhern) October 4, 2021
Wherein @WHO’s ace social media team gets cited by the @washingtonpost ⬇️ + global plaudits: https://t.co/rAvT4Mhhqw pic.twitter.com/Nz2PxtVkEQ
— Gabby Stern (@gabbystern) October 4, 2021
Haha, I misread this…Facebook apps go dark in widespread OUTRAGE…
— Brenda ?? ???????? ????????BS (@bkaydw) October 4, 2021
close but not quite.??
The outrage is on a rampage. FB can stay in the dark IMHO.
Misinformation has no place on such a popular and influential platform. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ONEV1 https://t.co/oUDy8AvrWM
We're excited that Verica Sr. Research Analyst, @courtneynash is quoted in the @washingtonpost story on the #facebookoutage concerning the growth and complexity of modern software. https://t.co/OZqo0eCXlt
— verica (@verica_io) October 4, 2021
*SCREAMS IN OVERSEAS REPORTER*https://t.co/bYSJIUBoG5
— Danielle Paquette (@DPAQreport) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are all DOWN (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/2giy14Zxe4
— TNW (@thenextweb) October 4, 2021
5 hours in, @NYTimes reports the root cause of the global outage for @facebook apps remains unclear. Members of FB’s security team “said it was unlikely that a cyberattack had taken place because one hack was unlikely to affect so many apps at once.” https://t.co/xNz5oKdYcZ pic.twitter.com/W4nNTTCcs8
— Alex Howard (@digiphile) October 4, 2021
The Facebook outage is so bad that the company is sending engineers to data centers to fix it.. could be awhile! https://t.co/DBgBumkkbO
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) October 4, 2021
*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible
— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021
Chernobyl season 2 https://t.co/CdYu7tvj5G
— Sara Schaefer (@saraschaefer1) October 4, 2021
Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem.
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 4, 2021
(It's chaos to even try to contact folks, but people are resorting to zoom, discord etc) https://t.co/nb06SFdmR3
"The cause of the outage remained unclear. Several hours into the incident, Facebook’s security experts were still trying to identify the root issue, according to an internal memo and employees briefed on the matter."https://t.co/ONltqwpHPW
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) October 4, 2021
"Facebook’s global security operations center determined the outage was “a HIGH risk to the People, MODERATE risk to Assets and a HIGH risk to the Reputation of Facebook,” the company memo said."https://t.co/ONltqwpHPW
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) October 4, 2021
5 hours in and tech giant @Facebook @instagram @WhatsApp is still down! https://t.co/UD4lt3mS4E
— Lice Movono (@LiceMovono) October 4, 2021
Just a glitch?
— Trymaine Lee (@trymainelee) October 4, 2021
FBs global security team “was notified of a system outage affecting all Facebook internal systems…security systems, an internal calendar and scheduling tools…trouble making calls from work-issued cellphones and receiving emails https://t.co/mm2NQipeBx
BREAKING: Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage, report @MikeIsaac @sheeraf.
— Gregory Schmidt (@GregoryNYC) October 4, 2021
https://t.co/nKRTqw6yJQ @nytimesbusiness
#WhatsApp, #Facebook, #Instagram down in major outage https://t.co/NOLoEsloNZ via @EconomicTimes #SocialMediaDown #serverdown #Technology#Programming #socialmediamarketing #coding #NodeJS #NLP #javascript #django #TensorFlow #devops #100DaysOfCode #RHOBH #Python#innovation
— د. خلود صالح المانع | Dr. Khulood Almani (@Khulood_Almani) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by global outage | https://t.co/ONuYLRSfE0 pic.twitter.com/mdlVUXbjPY
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp faced massive issues late Monday evening, according to https://t.co/qtp4PqV5xh, with thousands of users of these platforms reporting issues from around 9 pm #FaceBookDown #WhatsappDown#InstagramDown https://t.co/y8rAhFa6nj
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) October 4, 2021
?WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down in major outagehttps://t.co/TbcD1GH75t
— ETtech (@ETtech) October 4, 2021
Alright! ??
— CNET (@CNET) October 4, 2021
Since we're all gathered here today and everyone's watching #SquidGame, choose one player to bring back.
✨SPOILER ALERT✨https://t.co/cilHdwJes1
Ouch
— TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) October 4, 2021
Oculus Services Down As Facebook’s Domains Disappear From The Internet https://t.co/XIoYGZyv1Q via @uploadvr #Facebook #Facebookdown #Oculus #VR
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down due to DNS outage https://t.co/GbUFb90N9S
— piyokango (@piyokango) October 4, 2021
Facebookの不調はコレか。。。
— キタきつね (@foxbook) October 4, 2021
「ネットワークの専門家、BGPルーティングの問題が可能性が高い。この継続的な障害の背後にある原因です。」
「DNSの停止により、Facebook、WhatsApp、Instagramがダウン
」https://t.co/MXExBr1aDZ
Correction: it’s not always DNS, it was BGP. https://t.co/iOIfL7RaZn
— John Opdenakker (@j_opdenakker) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down due to DNS outage https://t.co/3VcWISsmMk pic.twitter.com/qXT3DeQ9Hn
— Sociability (@Sociability) October 4, 2021
DNS Outage ...https://t.co/c18fBzU3Ml
— Premakumar V (@premakumarv) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down due to DNS outage. @dynamicCISO @DynamicCIO #100daysofcode #girlswhocode https://t.co/tvNN6HlTwJ
— Rahul Neel Mani (@rneelmani) October 4, 2021
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram down due to DNS outage https://t.co/p1TqC7Lb4W
— The Cyber Security Hub™ (@TheCyberSecHub) October 4, 2021
Facebook apps began to slowly recover from a prolonged, global outage on Monday evening, though problems still persisted for many users. https://t.co/4L5zPTpOUK
— Poli Alert (@polialertcom) October 4, 2021
It’s wild that we all agree that we would be better off if we never logged back on, but will be back by the end of the evening. https://t.co/wMqc2MvG3L
— Zack Czajkowski (@ZackCz) October 4, 2021
Facebook、今朝からほぼ半日ダウンしていましたが先ほどから徐々に回復しているようです。いいね！が戻ってきました。
— NY金魚 (@nyckingyo) October 4, 2021
◆フェイスブックのアプリは、月曜日の夜、長期の世界的な障害から徐々に回復し始めましたが、多くのユーザーにはまだ問題が残っています。 -https://t.co/23JTCYj21L
have u heard that facebook is down? here is my story with worldwide details https://t.co/HJeopA72Wd
— Rachel Lerman (@rachelerman) October 4, 2021
Facebook still isn’t saying what caused it to disappear but it’s “unlikely” to be malicious. However, it’s nearly unheard of to have such a large company go down for so long. “This is massive. It’s completely dead.” By @rachelerman https://t.co/jHDVGc2YrD
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) October 4, 2021
"Two Facebook security team members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues." @nytimes https://t.co/9LhGJcyXH6
— Nick? (@nicksologist) October 4, 2021
Dear @nytimes: No, Facebook is not synonymous with the internet in India. ?
— Nitin Pai (@acorn) October 5, 2021
It might have been if Free Basics was allowed to pass. And the outage tells you why Free Basics was a bad idea.)
https://t.co/9kMI6Nk5fC
That sounds really bad #facebookdown https://t.co/vuI2xKlJvo pic.twitter.com/TZq8UZE7p4
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) October 4, 2021
Well, they did.
— iRandi ? (@dokterparu) October 5, 2021
"A small team of employees was soon dispatched to Facebook’s Santa Clara data center to try a “manual reset” of the company’s servers, according to an internal memo."https://t.co/qcMZ1Y9mAU
From the NYT re the Facebook outage. JFC. https://t.co/UeZS1O5v9g pic.twitter.com/5soOKVMANa
— The Truth About Guns (@guntruth) October 5, 2021
"Two Facebook security team members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues" https://t.co/MS1wnXbahW
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) October 4, 2021
Ask us again why we chose to build on the Internet Computer ?
— distrikt (@DistriktApp) October 4, 2021
@dfinity #ICP #facebookdownhttps://t.co/9XpKKHVh94
5) Popcorn ? for dinner tonight…. FB is still in denial of a DNS attack. Lol. https://t.co/68EKpqexS7
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 4, 2021
Even Facebook staff were “unable to access buildings & conference rooms due to their digital badges not working.” Finally, a team was dispatched to “manually reset the servers at Santa Clara Data Center”
— Abdirashid Jeeni (@AbdiJeeni) October 5, 2021
Visit the link; @nytimes elucidates the matter.https://t.co/hkKl3BoaLF
The cause still unclear after several hours of outage https://t.co/FthKT6rDBo
— Salman Masood (@salmanmasood) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back after outage, firm cites faulty configuration change as root cause https://t.co/oRgVxMPGro pic.twitter.com/RlGEhSeinN
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) October 5, 2021
#WhatsApp, #Facebook, #Instagram recover after almost six-hour #outage #facebookoutage #WhatsAppDown #instagramdown #facebookdown https://t.co/y8rAhFa6nj
— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) October 5, 2021
hehe .. this was not an accident https://t.co/4KgzF3u3mt
— Dallas Barnett ???✊????♂️?️???♂️??? (@DallasBarnett3) October 4, 2021
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down: Funniest memes and jokes - CNET https://t.co/wfUZ2syksB #socialtech #feedly
— NinjAloha50 (@ninjaloha50) October 4, 2021
Some personal news: I own https://t.co/1hk15LsqzS now https://t.co/Z8XEmk1F3S
— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) October 4, 2021
Facebook関連のサービスで障害発生中、DNSサーバの障害みたい？
— ねぶい@VRC (@Paratap_VRC) October 4, 2021
Oculus Linkは使えるけどQuest単体だとだめみたい（未確認情報）
virtual desktopも使えないのかな？
Oculus Services Down As Facebook’s Domains Disappear From The Internet https://t.co/FHwtdc1Jyh @uploadvrより