
And this wasn’t some small or regional issue - this was every service, in every location, completely dead. The outages hit the websites, apps, and related services of everything in the Facebook network. PT, the services had for the most part returned to working order, albeit with some cobwebs left to shake out, leaving everyone collectively scratching their heads and wondering how an outage of this scale happened.

PT, Downdetector started to show a sharp spike in reports of outages - though as we look back, users were discussing unsent messages and broken apps even earlier.Īs of 4 p.m. Well, here’s one way to start a week off on the wrong foot: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all down for several hours on Monday.
