Entire Facebook Network is Down for 8 hours

At around 11.45pm Singapore Time (GMT+8), the entire Facebook network went offline. This includes all the most popular/used apps like Facebook app, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

It was only until around 45mins later where the official twitter account for the respective apps started announcing that their apps are having issue.

Instagram Comms on Twitter: “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown / Twitter”

Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown

Facebook on Twitter: “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. / Twitter”

We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

WhatsApp on Twitter: “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience! / Twitter”

We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!

Despite the term used by WhatsApp and Facebook twitter accounts is “some people”, from our investigation, the outage seemed to be global and complete. Its a complete outage.

Although the irony is not lost on everyone, as users flooded twitter to find information about WhatsApp Facebook and Instagram – showing the importance of Twitter as a media channel or new release outlet.

Dilip Singh Rao ?? on Twitter: “Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram down Proud Twitter Users ?✈️?#facebookdown #instagramdownpic.twitter.com/vDsxLEqLBy / Twitter”

Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram down Proud Twitter Users ?✈️?#facebookdown #instagramdownpic.twitter.com/vDsxLEqLBy

The Entire Facebook Network is DOWN~! Including Instagram, Whatsapp & Messenger!

For those that put all your “eggs” in the Facebook “basket”…. good luck to you.Download Telegram; use Gab, use Parler, use Gettr~!

The most concerning thing now is that, how is it that the entire Facebook network can go down all at the same time? Could the 4 different social media platform be so linked up that one goes down, all goes down?

Why is the outage this complete and global? Wouldn’t it be just outage for some part of the world? All mystery should be a huge concern – this could spell extreme vulnerability for the users, especially for those that based their entire business on Instagram or Facebook (or both).

The outage of WhatsApp would probably once against bring another wave of users over to Telegram as a back up or alternative. WhatsApp is used like an universal messenging application for most countries around the world – the de facto messenging app for work, family and personal communications. The outage is likely to push people to consider alternate apps either for primary communications or as a backup.

— additional report —

All services recovered at 7.39am Singapore time (GMT+8), nearly 8 hours after the entire network went down.

Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook tweeted at 3.52am SGT, “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible”

Mike Schroepfer on Twitter: “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible / Twitter”

Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible

At 6.33am SGT (GMT+8), Facebook tweeted that access to their apps are returning online. Messenger retweeted the same message.

Facebook on Twitter: “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us. / Twitter”

To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.

Instagram is the next to tweet that their services is back up and running at 6.58am SGT (GMT+8).

Instagram Comms on Twitter: “Instagram is slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait! https://t.co/O6II13DrMy / Twitter”

Instagram is slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait! https://t.co/O6II13DrMy

For WhatsApp, the messages that was sent in vain the night before came in at 7.39am SGT (GMT+8), half an hour after WhatsApp tweeted that they are gradually resuming services.

WhatsApp on Twitter: “Apologies to everyone who hasn’t been able to use WhatsApp today. We’re starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again.Thank you so much for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share. / Twitter”

Apologies to everyone who hasn’t been able to use WhatsApp today. We’re starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again.Thank you so much for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share.

At 10.30am SGT (GMT+8), WhatsApp tweeted that all services are back running at 100%.

WhatsApp on Twitter: “We’re now back and running at 100%. ? Thank you to everyone around the world today for your patience while our teams worked diligently to restore WhatsApp. We truly appreciate you and continue to be humbled by how much people and organizations rely on our app every day. ? / Twitter”

We’re now back and running at 100%. ? Thank you to everyone around the world today for your patience while our teams worked diligently to restore WhatsApp. We truly appreciate you and continue to be humbled by how much people and organizations rely on our app every day. ?

Meanwhile, in Telegram land….

Telegram Messenger on Twitter: “pic.twitter.com/h8CcSzf1Fs / Twitter”

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