Facebook's Unparalleled Outage: When The World's Largest Social Network Vanished

Webbillions of users were unable to access facebook, instagram and whatsapp for hours while the social media giant scrambled to restore services

The outages come on the eve of another.

Webfacebook’s massive outage on monday occurred after the backbone that connects its servers shut down during routine maintenance.

Webon october 4, 2021, at 15:39 utc, the social network facebook and its subsidiaries, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, mapillary, and oculus, became globally unavailable.

Webfacebook service has been restored after an outage lasting almost six hours hit the company's services on monday.

Webfacebook and its group of apps and social media platforms like whatsapp and instagram were down most of monday.

What to know about Facebook's massive outage that brought the internet

Webfacebook suffered a devastating outage that shut out many of its 2. 7 billion global users, idled some of the company’s employees and prompted a public apology.

Webdowndetector, which monitors internet problems, said the facebook outage was the largest it had seen, with more than 10. 6 million reports worldwide.

Webfacebook’s (fb) week went from bad to worse monday when the social networking giant’s apps went dark worldwide for roughly six hours.