The Facebook domain also does not respond to a Ping request (where a user can send and receive a simple signal back from a web server.) The cause of the downtime is currently unknown, but error messages displayed when trying to access Facebook suggest the issue is related to a DNS error (as is often the case with large scale outages.) The incident has been met by a surge of users flooding to alternative social media, most notably Twitter, where the terms Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Zuckerberg were trending within minutes.Įven the website – a site that will tell you if a website is down across most of the Internet or just for a specific user – itself went down, most likely due to the influx of users suddenly checking the website. The outage has affected both websites and mobile apps belonging to Facebook. Please note that articles on this site may contain affiliate links.ĭuring October 4th, many of Facebooks products, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and the Facebook website and app itself became unavailable to a large number of users.
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