Apps for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp suffered disruptions for some users around the world on Thursday morning, with unidentified technical problems leading to error messages and pages that wouldn't load.
Facebook, which runs all four apps, acknowledged the problems just before 4am AEDT, via Twitter: "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible," it said.Bloomberg However for some users, the issues have persisted for eight straight hours according to the website DownDetector.com.Advertisement
That's a reference to a distributed denial-of-service brute-force attack, in which networks are overloaded with bogus traffic designed to disrupt service.Outages for large internet platforms like Facebook or YouTube aren't unusual, but in the past they have typically restored service within an hour or two.
As Facebook's outages dragged on, Twitter lit up with complaints, comments, memes and jokes about the situation., leaving some users unable to send emails with attachments and with spotty access to their online files for several hours.
Instagram is now up, but Facebook is still down.
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