

“The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition,” the company announced. Last August, Facebook went down for about 45 minutes, which was described as a relatively lengthy outage for the firm.Įarlier, in 2010, Facebook experienced a 2.5-hour outage that at the time the company called its “worst outage we’ve had in over four years.”

The company blamed a “server configuration change,” and apologized for the outages. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.įacebook finally gave the all clear about 24 hours later. We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. It noted that Facebook manages some $90 million in ad revenue per day. Ads Manager is the self-serve advertising website that millions of marketers use to schedule their campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger,” according to the website. “On Wednesday, Facebook Ads Manager, the lifeblood of advertising, was out of order, along with the rest of the platform. The company wrote in a tweet later that it was trying to resolve the issue “as soon as possible,” confirming that the outage “is not related to a DDoS attack.”Īccording to AdAge, advertisers were also locked out of Facebook’s ad manager. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution,” Facebook wrote, adding that it was “investigating.” “We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. Prior Outagesįacebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all inaccessible for around six hours in March. Sunday’s outages came just a month after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever. Many users took to Twitter to say that they were having issues. RT if it’s down for you as well #Facebookdown ET on Sunday.įacebook is having issues since 6:36 AM EDT. EDT, with Facebook and Instagram both inaccessible for at least several hours.ĭ has received more than 11,000 reports of problems since 7 a.m. Outages were reported starting at around 6:30 a.m. Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp across the world reported problems accessing the platforms on the morning of Sunday, April 14.
