{"id":11358,"date":"2022-07-14T06:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2022-07-14T06:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:09:54","slug":"what-happened-with-facebook-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today","title":{"rendered":"What Happened With Facebook Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f47fe4ed48f\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f47fe4ed48f\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f47fe4ed48f\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#What_Happened_With_Facebook_Today\" title=\"What Happened With Facebook Today?\">What Happened With Facebook Today?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#Google_Cloud_outage\" title=\"Google Cloud outage\">Google Cloud outage<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#Configuration_changes\" title=\"Configuration changes\">Configuration changes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#Oculus_VR_headsets\" title=\"Oculus VR headsets\">Oculus VR headsets<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#Instagram\" title=\"Instagram\">Instagram<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-with-facebook-today\/#WhatsApp\" title=\"WhatsApp\">WhatsApp<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Happened_With_Facebook_Today\"><\/span>What Happened With Facebook Today?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"what happened with facebook today\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zqAxRuv.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>What happened with Facebook today? Well, the new system they are using makes them more efficient. But there can be some problems. Outages like this one can cascade. While Facebook&#8217;s outages have generally been resolved in about an hour, the length of the blackout raises questions about the way the internet works when it is in the hands of just a few big companies. It is worth considering how to prevent a blackout of this scale from occurring again.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Google_Cloud_outage\"><\/span>Google Cloud outage<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The outage was related to Google Cloud, which is the backbone of the internet. This outage affected several global services including Google Maps, YouTube, and Facebook. A downdetector dashboard shows a spike in reports of outages around 1PM EST. The company has since apologized for any inconvenience caused. As of 2:52PM EST, the issue is still partially resolved, though Google has confirmed the outage in their status dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was not linked to a DDoS attack, but a problem with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), a popular internet protocol. This fault forced Facebook to shutdown its online services, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The outage also affected any service that uses Facebook for login or uses its servers. Several popular websites also suffered from the outage. In addition to Facebook, many major advertisers rely on Facebook to reach their audience.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Configuration_changes\"><\/span>Configuration changes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In a blog post today, Facebook announced that it&#8217;s making some server configuration changes to prevent outages. The outage, which lasted six hours, was attributed to a faulty configuration change. The changes, which largely affected the company&#8217;s tools, were not related to any user data, but Facebook is still unsure why it happened. The outage was unrelated to a previous one, which affected Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the outage, more than three billion people couldn&#8217;t access the social network and other services. The outage was caused by a configuration change, which the company didn&#8217;t identify who made it, nor did it mention if it was an error or a planned maintenance. As a result, Facebook has apologized to the people and businesses that depend on its services. It didn&#8217;t say if this was an error or an intentional outage, but it did say that it was &#8220;a rare incident&#8221; and that it was not a widespread problem.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Oculus_VR_headsets\"><\/span>Oculus VR headsets<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Oculus is an online gaming platform for VR headsets. It was founded in 2012 and purchased by Facebook for $2 billion. CEO Palmer Luckey promised users that Oculus would not display ads. But a year later, he pulled the plug on that promise, saying that ads might be added to Bait! in the future. What happened? Here are some answers to the burning questions.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s recent policy change has triggered some controversy. The first is that users will no longer be able to login to Oculus using their Facebook accounts. This move has prompted the social networking giant to reverse its policy, which required that users log in with their Facebook accounts. Facebook users may have felt uncomfortable with this decision at first, but now, the company wants to make it right. The next move will depend on the stipulations and conditions of the new system.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Instagram\"><\/span>Instagram<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A Facebook outage this afternoon has triggered outrage among lawmakers and regulators. One employee revealed their identity and will testify to Congress on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the outage prompted social media mockery as the hashtag #facebookdown trended. The outage occurred after a whistleblower distributed internal research to the Wall Street Journal and Congress, revealing the negative impact of Instagram on younger users. The whistleblower also revealed that Facebook&#8217;s algorithm enabled the spread of misinformation. The company&#8217;s shares closed down 5% after the revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Facebook&#8217;s outage also affected its main source of revenue: advertising. Facebook&#8217;s digital ad revenue in the U.S. is estimated at $48 billion a year and will reach $55 billion by 2022. Meanwhile, Instagram&#8217;s digital ad revenue is expected to hit $25 billion this year and $32 billion by 2022. This downtime hit small businesses and creators the hardest.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"WhatsApp\"><\/span>WhatsApp<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The question &#8220;What happened with Facebook today?&#8221; has prompted many to wonder: did the social network go offline? The outage hit Facebook&#8217;s user base around noon Eastern Time on Oct. 4, but the problem wasn&#8217;t isolated to the site itself. Facebook employees were not able to access their email accounts or internal communications platform, making it difficult to diagnose the problem. Facebook&#8217;s outage was the worst it had been in years, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was likely the result of human error.<\/p>\n<p>The social network&#8217;s outage buried a recent story about an alleged FB hostage. The outage prevented the story from spreading throughout the social network&#8217;s networks, but it was too late to stop it from circulating. The real news is how this story made headlines in the first place. Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Happened With Facebook Today? What happened with Facebook today? Well, the new system they are using makes them more efficient. But there can be some problems. Outages like this one can cascade. 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