Minor update: https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1105907126424109056?s=21
> We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.
Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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#52Can 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 smal…
Gmail and other Google products went down last night. Close though. Thankfully not on Twitter or FB.
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#53Could this be related to the storm?
I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate UPS and generator. Last status update I had says that they are running off generators, but they've been shockingly tight-lipped about it.
Don't get me wrong, it was hi-LAR-ious to call into their NOC and have them pretend that I was the only one having problems. "Can you tell me if there is a major data center outage going on?" "We are trying to gather information, we are making a bunch of client phone calls, we will know after we make those calls." "... Why are you making a bunch of client calls if you aren't having an outage?"
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Increased Error Rates Created by Gary Fitzpatrick · · Facebook Team — Today at 10:32 AM Current State: Investigating Description: We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution. Start Time: 2 hours ago Last Update: about an hour ago Updates: There are currently no updates for this issue.
> Increased Error Rates Created by Gary Fitzpatrick Well someone tell him to stop, for pete's sake!
Are you joshing me?
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#55Instagram seems to load the feed here fine (EU), but doesn't allow you to log in from any device or post anything new. FB is totally fine if you are logged in for reading, but also can't log in if logged out.
VPN to US, insta can login, but still not post.
Distributed services are weird man!
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#56Look at how many service providers have increased incidents reported here: https://downdetector.com/
My bet is that people are having problems with FB/Insta and immediately assuming that the whole internet is messed up.
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#57Google then Facebook and Instagram? My hunch is that it's the end of Q1 and people are trying to release code changes so they can pad their Q1 performance reviews "designed and delivered feature X on time in Q1".
"and brought down a service used by billions and losing potentially millions in revenue."
Can't claim they didn't have impact then. :)
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#58So yesterday Google had a major (and out of character) outage across its apps, and today Facebook has a major (and also out of character) outage across its apps. I can't wait to see the RCA for both of these and if they're related.
Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.
I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.
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#59Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic)
Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
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#60Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
Potentially much value was gained (or stopped hemorrhaging)