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

Post by wybiral » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

bargl wrote: post #34

wybiral wrote: post #16

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 smal…

I think the only reason your comment gets down voted is because it's biased only to one side. I see about what Jon Oliver states as if I remember correct 1/2 as many conspiracy posts from about Trump (Edit: I meant to write conservatives write 2x as many conspiracy posts as democrats. This was not represented in my previous sentence.). It's annoying. I guess to accurately represent things on Facebook you'd have to sa…

Post by unfunco » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #38

Google 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".

Post by mizeandmen » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

Post by twic » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

yorwba wrote: post #37

_5659 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the status page is down for me as well.

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.

Post by samstave » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #10

jedberg wrote: post #9

So 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.