WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram vanished from internet for 6 hours last night: Full story in 5 points
India Today
Something unimaginable happened last night: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook disappeared from the internet. The services stopped and facebook.com wasn’t even sending a DNS pingback. Here is the full story of how all Facebook services went down in a major outage while you were sleeping.
The internet users across the globe were in for a rude shock when WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram went kaput on Monday evening. Several uses thronged to Twitter to reconfirm whether the issue was with their network or did the Facebook-owned apps really go down. It took over six hours for Facebook to resolve the issue that the company claimed arose due to a “faulty configuration change”. WhatsApp’s outage affected over 3.5 billion users across the globe.
The interesting bit about the Facebook outage was just how severe it was and how it not only made services like WhatsApp inaccessible but also made facebook.com and its servers disappear from the internet. It was as if the whole of Facebook simply vanished.
