In one of the day’s most popular tweets, video streaming company Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show “Squid Game” captioned “When Instagram & Facebook are down,” that showed a person labeled “Twitter” holding up a character on the verge of falling labeled “everyone.” Twitter on Monday reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing posts and direct messages. “ Facebook basically locked its keys in its car,” tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. “To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry,” Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it “may take some time to get to 100%.” Shares rose about half a percent in after-hours trade following resumption of service.

The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.Īs the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9%, their biggest daily drop since last November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday. The Facebook outage is the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. “We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change,” Facebook said in the blog.

Security experts have said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible. The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees said.

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