Facebook And Instagram Down; Live Updates; What Caused The Disruption In Service!

Earlier today, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down for an unknown reason. As if this writing, there is still not a 100 percent clear cut reason as to why this occurred. Below are some updates on the situation.

As recent as 40 minutes ago, even Twitter began seeing the effects of this. As more people are not able to use Facebook and Instagram, Twitter has seen a huge amount of active users so people can get their social media fix.

Security Researcher Steve Gibson had the following to say on the matter a couple of hours ago.

Someone on the Facebook recovery effort has explained that a routine BGP update went wrong, which in turn locked out those with remote access who could reverse the mistake. Those who do have physical access do not have authorization on the servers. Catch-22.

— Steve Gibson (@SGgrc) October 4, 2021

A little over an hour ago, Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer has issued a sincere apology for the disruption ins service.

*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible

— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021

Even Congressman Alexandria Ocasio Ortiz felt the need to make fun of the fact that the technology giant was struggling to get the issues resolved today.

In observance of Facebook being down, let’s all share our favorite stories of democracy working in hopeful ways and coolest evidence-based reporting. Bonus points for uplifting others in comments 😌⬇️

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2021

The best part was however Twitter winning the day with the following Tweet.