That could also help explain why it’s taking so long to get back up and running. (Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri even tweeted that “it does feel like a snow day.”) And since the company’s own internal networks can’t reach the outside internet, its employees reportedly can’t get much done today either. You can’t use “Login with Facebook” on third-party sites, for instance. Which also means that more than just Facebook’s external services are affected. For once, Facebook has stopped advertising. After all, he says, the internet is essentially a network of networks, each advertising its presence to the other. (Facebook confirmed as much in an engineering blog post on Monday evening.) “It appears that Facebook has done something to their routers, the ones that connect the Facebook network to the rest of the internet,” says John Graham-Cumming, CTO of internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, who stressed that he doesn’t know the details of what happened. The internet infrastructure experts who spoke to WIRED all suggested the likeliest answer was a misconfiguration on Facebook’s part. In this case, though, something more serious appears to be afoot. They can happen for all kinds of wonky technical reasons, often related to configuration issues, and can be relatively straightforward to resolve.
DNS is often referred to as the internet’s phone book it’s what translates the host names you type into a URL tab-like -into IP addresses, which is where those sites live.ĭNS mishaps are common enough, and when in doubt, they're the reason why a given site has gone down. The company’s family of apps effectively fell off the face of the internet at 11:40 am ET, according to when its Domain Name System records became unreachable. It’s a social media blackout that can most charitably be described as “thorough” and seems likely to prove particularly tough to fix.įacebook itself has not confirmed the root cause of its woes, but clues abound on the internet.
#Whatsapp down reason Offline
"Everyone who noticed #whatsapp is down have come to twitter to confirm it," said one Twitter user.A Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus outage knocked every corner of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire offline on Monday.
#whatsappdown was trending on Twitter, with more than 142,000 tweets and hundreds of memes flooding the Internet. The app's latest outage comes during the festive season in India - its biggest market by user count - when people use the platform even more than usual to send season's greetings. When the app had an hours-long outage last October, it hit trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to oil, before traders switched to alternative platforms such as Telegram. WhatsApp has become a critical means of communication for households and businesses. Problems were also reported by 19,000 people in Singapore and 15,000 people in South Africa, it said.Īs of 5pm, WhatApp appeared to be functioning normally, with reports tapering off on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources such as user-submitted errors on its platform. The website Downdetector saw a surge in reports just before 3pm Singapore time, with many users commenting that they were unable to send and receive messages.Īt around 3.50pm, Downdetector showed that more than 68,000 users had reported problems with the app in the UK. Users in Asia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Europe were affected. The company did not disclose the reason for the outage. "We've fixed the issue and apologise for any inconvenience," a spokesperson for WhatsApp parent company Meta Platforms said. "We know people had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp today.
SINGAPORE: Popular messaging app WhatsApp has restored its services after users across the world reported issues earlier on Tuesday (Oct 25).
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