Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram ALL Crash on Monday
Oct 4th, 2021, 12:15 pm
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Facebook, along with its other properties, WhatsApp and Instagram, went dark on Monday morning, sparking panic among users worldwide.
The outage began at 11:44 a.m. Eastern, according to DownDetector, or 3:54 GMT. Users flocked to Twitter and other social media platforms in search of answers, but it was not immediately clear what caused the breakdown.
It’s been a very challenging past seven days for Facebook, which appears to have culminated with this massive server outage, as CNN’s Brian Stelter points out:
And of course, blue checks on Twitter showed up to crack wise. To wit:
https://twitter.com/lesterkk/status/1445060539303010312?s=20
