Inside the Mega Outage: How Facebook & Instagram Went Dark

Recent Facebook and Instagram Outage Overview

Duration of Outage: The outage affected Facebook and Instagram users globally, with services showing signs of recovery nearly six hours after the disruption began

Magnitude of Outage: Over 10.6 million problem reports were recorded globally, marking one of the largest outages ever monitored by Downdetector

User Impact: More than 70,000 Facebook users and a significant number of Instagram users reported issues during the outage

Financial Impact: A previous outage in 2021 that lasted hours across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp reportedly cost the company around $65 million in revenue, highlighting the substantial financial implications of such disruptions

Resolution: Approximately an hour and a half after reports of the outage began, fewer than 80,000 people were still reporting issues with Facebook, indicating a gradual resolution of the widespread disruption

Meta-Owned Platforms: The outage affected social media sites owned by Meta, including Facebook and Instagram, causing a mass disruption on a global scale

Service Restoration: Both Facebook and Instagram were back online after the widespread outage was resolved, with services returning to normalcy approximately three hours after the initial reports of issues

This outage underscores the significant impact that technical disruptions can have on large-scale social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, affecting millions of users worldwide and highlighting the importance of robust infrastructure to maintain uninterrupted service.


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