

This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. “The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many of the internal tools and systems we use in our day-to-day operations, complicating our attempts to quickly diagnose and resolve the problem,” the company said in a blog post the following day. While we wait for an explanation of what’s going on, here’s what Facebook said following the massive outage on 4 October: Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down in various parts of the world as multiple users have reported the downtime. We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment and will be bringing you all the latest updates as we get them. To The Independent’s live coverage of the latest Facebook outage, which is impacting Meta-owned apps Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day.

You can follow all the latest updates on the outage right here. Facebook Messenger outages reported in the last 24 hours. More than 100 billion messages are sent across Facebook’s family of apps each day, with Instagram and Messenger sharing the same underlying infrastructure.
