On Friday afternoon, thousands of Facebook users reported problems. This is the second time in a row that the largest social network has had to go down.
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DownDetector currently shows that Instagram and Facebook are having the most problems with around 34,000 users reporting that Instagram crashed in the last hour. Messenger and WhatsApp are also seeing an increase in incident reports.
Facebook users took to Twitter Monday to vent their frustrations (relief?) They can't seem to get their eyes on certain posts.
While most Gizmodo employees seem to be using the company's services, at least one West Coast staffer discovered Instagram to be unaccessible.
A Facebook spokesperson responded to our request for comment with the following statement: "We are aware that some people are having difficulty accessing Facebook products. We are working quickly to get things back on track and apologize for any inconvenience.
The network-wide outage that Facebook experienced earlier this week was its most serious technical error since 2004 when it launched. The company lost $60 million in revenue over the six-hour period that engineers worked to bring its services back online. Its stock price also suffered a short $47.3 billion loss.
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It was discovered that the massive outage was caused by a configuration error to an important but obscure routing protocol called Border Gateway Protocol (or BGP). BGP is a network that helps decide where traffic should be routed. In a blog post, the web infrastructure giant explained how Facebook's downfall put immense pressure on other networks to maintain their heads above water. Users were chaotically rerouted around the internet.
People who live in countries dependent on WhatsApp were cut off completely from the internet, which highlighted the immense power that the social media giant wields without any oversight.
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