Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by boshomi » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

see also: Facebook, Instagram down: Social media sites not working for many, FB doing 'required maintenance'

[1] https://www.abc15.com/news/national/facebook-down-social-med...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by boshomi » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

the issue is also in EU: Is Facebook down? Messenger, site, app and Instagram hit by issues[1]

[1]https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/faceboo...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by g8oz » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

...and nothing of value was lost.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by arisAlexis » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

yesterday Google and today Facebook. My conspirator says it's the Chinese government showcasing.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by BucketSort » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by wybiral » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time?

People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on.

Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a small set of services. "Cloud" has centralized things a lot.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by agosnell » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

If you use their API and haven't seen it yet, their issue is listed here on their status page:

https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/55989644784543...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by nathan929 » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

...terrifying API developers everywhere...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by aviv » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Likely a firmware issue with the NSA intercept devices.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by Theodores » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 6:33 PM UTC

aviv wrote: post #19

BucketSort wrote: post #15

Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?

Likely a firmware issue with the NSA intercept devices.

...and their key infrastructure in Venezuela.