This is a breaking story so we’ll provide updates as they become available.
As of this writing, both Facebook and Instagram are down, at least here within the United States. We are also receiving reports of an outage in Europe. Oddly enough, the website IsItDownRightNow also seems to be experiencing problems making information harder to come by.
Right now, all information is coming in from Twitter.
While we have no reason to think this anything out of the ordinary, we should mention that there was a perhaps controversial release of information regarding the Facebook platform reported on 60 Minutes last night and it certainly has some people talking today.
Continue to check back for new information.
UPDATE 1: While the service IsItDownRightNow is running fine again (seems to have just been a short glitch), Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp remain completely down
UPDATE 2: Per @TheInsiderPaper “Facebook’s DNS problem is actually affecting the internet. DNS providers are being hammered with queries.”
The service has been communicating with users via Twitter. There are also rumors that internal systems are down and that workers are communicating with one another via Outlook email.
UPDATE 3: Facebook is back up, but rolling out to users slowly.
What’s weird is that they didn’t even posted a mentioned of problem post on either of the sites.
something that might suggest that they are having a dns problems
Thank you for the update:)