This outage along with other whistle blower news related to Facebook last week and over the weekend is definitely going to affect Facebook’s reputation and usage as the most popular social media platform.This may include temporarily removing the Facebook Pixel in your Google Tag Manager. If your site is down or running slow you need to have your developers remove any embeds from Facebook or Instagram or login functions related to them.If you normally use Facebook to communicate with your clients/customers you can shift those messages to other channels like your own websites, email, LinkedIn, Twitter, TikTok or Pinterest depending on who your audience is and where they spend their time.With Facebook and Instagram, you only pay when someone sees your ad. If you are using Facebook’s advertising service then your ads aren’t serving and no one is seeing them which means you aren’t paying for them.We can speculate that this is malicious and a hacker has done this because we’ve seen similar DNS attacks in the telecommunications and communications world in the last few weeks.DNS translates a domain name like or into an IP internet address which represent a server on the internet.As best as we can tell it’s Global DNS outage for Facebook- Domain name service.Other sites/services that depend on Facebook for login- like Eventbrite.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to break the company up. And it prompted calls from legislators like Rep. While the outage was frustrating for daily users of Instagram and Facebook, it was far more problematic for the millions of people who use WhatsApp as a primary communication tool. Four hours later, Schroepfer tweeted, “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Meanwhile, the company offered no explanations. Shortly after the outage occurred, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company was working to restore access to its apps.
Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, nodded to the broad extent of the outage, tweeting that it "does feel like a snow day." Others reported that the badges they use to enter Facebook buildings had stopped working. A number of employees told BuzzFeed News that they could not receive emails from outside addresses. Inside Facebook, the outage wreaked havoc across several crucial internal systems.
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