The world's largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal detailing how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, especially around body image. The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health.įrances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest - but said in an interview with CBS news show '60 Minutes' that Facebook was 'substantially worse' than anything she had seen before.

Meanwhile, the company's market value has soared from USD 375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly $1 trillion now. The platform currently has 3 billion users.Hello literally everyone- Twitter October 4, 2021įacebook's annual revenue has more than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

The outage marked the longest stretch of downtime for Facebook since 2008, when a bug knocked the site offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. DNS, short for Domain Name System, is like a phone book for websites. ThousandEyes, a network monitoring service owned by Cisco, said in an email that the outage was the result of DNS failure. Reports on showed the outages appeared to be widespread, but it was unclear how many users were unable to access the apps. The global Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage on Monday may have been an annoyance for the platforms users in the United States, but it turned. Thank you for bearing with us.'Īll three platforms stopped working shortly before noon ET, when the websites and apps for Facebook's services were responding with server errors. 'We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. The outage was confirmed by WhatsApp in a tweet shared on Monday. 'To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry,' Facebook said in a statement. WhatsApp’s official Twitter handle provided users update on the status of the app.

Some of the services are not yet fully functioning - for example, some users are still reporting problems posting new content to Instagram.

Whatsapp outage update