After a nearly six-hour outage, Facebook appears to be reconnected to the global internet, Cloudflare reported Monday afternoon. The affected services may take more time to recover.
The flagship Facebook app, as well as Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Oculus services all suffered a global outage beginning at around 11:44 am EDT. The social media giant’s platforms went down because there were no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites. BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS).
According to Cloudflare, Facebook was reconnected as of 5:28 pm EDT.
The outage inspired countless jokes and hot takes on Twitter and other corners of the internet that aren’t part of the Facebook empire:
People making jokes about the Facebook services going down make me sick. Anyone who was using an Oculus headset at the time is currently trapped in VR, and if they die there then they die in real life.
— Gavin Young (@GavinDYoung) October 4, 2021
If Facebook’s monopolistic behavior was checked back when it should’ve been (perhaps around the time it started acquiring competitors like Instagram), the continents of people who depend on WhatsApp & IG for either communication or commerce would be fine right now. Break them up.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2021
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