When Your WHOLE World Comes Tumblin Down – Facebook Down In ND
I immediately looked out our window here at our radio station ( the 12th-floor elevator busted )...
...and everything looked normal. I didn't see any police cars and first responders speeding down Memorial Highway - just the usual, snow falling sideways, and fog causing our footing to be extra slippery ( nothing new at all ). Yet inside our building, I could feel the tension, something was wrong.
MY Facebook was DOWN!
It was a loud shout heard by us all - my first thought was "Let's all hurry up and get out of the building..." - but why? So I figured we were having a technical issue here at our studios, picked up MY cell phone, and saw for myself that I couldn't open MY account. Yikes.
**** This happened back in March of this year ****
Well it was time for action, as smart as I am, I quickly went to the internet - our friend GOOGLE
That's right, if anyone could be of help, it would be GOOGLE. I typed in "Facebook has crashed" - and there in front of me was a bunch of news already on it...according to variety.com "Meta’s Facebook and Instagram were experiencing widespread technical problems Tuesday, with thousands of users logging errors in accessing the social media services. Users reported problems including being logged out of Facebook — and when they attempted to log back in, saw an error message such as, “Something went wrong. Please try again.” According to monitoring service Downdetector, error reports spiked just after 10:30 a.m. ET Tuesday. As of 11 a.m., Downdetector had received more than 500,000 error reports"
SO just about ten minutes ago, I tried to log in....and saw THIS
I began to panic.....trying to catch my breath a bit......
OK, come on now, it's ONLY for maintenance, RIGHT? I'm pretty sure our world is still spinning......we should be all ok.....Hey, maybe I'll go outside for a breather ( NOPE, it's only 3 degrees out )
Pretty much the same issue as before - according to forbes.com "
Just after 2:30 p.m., the number of reported outages on Facebook had dropped to about 18,000, and Instagram was also down from its peak outage—though WhatsApp outages continued to remain high at more than 8,000 reports of issues.
Upon trying to access Facebook, some users were met with an error message reading “We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
Meta’s status and outages page for its business products said as of just before 2 p.m. EST that Facebook Ads Manager, Messaging Ads, Messenger API for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp Business API were suffering “major disruptions.”
I want my WORLD back...
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