We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Facebook Whisleblower’s explosive interview on 60 MinutesĬould the crash be connected to revelations made yesterday by a former Facebook employee?įrances Haugen last night revealed her identity as the Facebook Whistleblower in an interview on 60 Minutes.

Later the company’s CTO Mike Schroepfer said: “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now.

We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” Twitter broke records for the number of visitors it suddenly received.īy 21h30 in South Africa, the Top 5 Twitter trends were: 1 – WhatsApp, 2 – #facebookdown, 3 – Mark Zuckerberg, 4 – #DeleteFacebook, 5 – iMessageĪccording to Downdetector’s news at 20h00, almost 80,000 users reported WhatsApp being down, over 120,000 reported Facebook outages and at least 80,000 reported Instagram is down.įacebook announced (in a tweet of course): “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Twitter humorously tweeted: “hello literally everyone”… as people around the globe turned to the social media site for information on what was happening.

In South Africa #WhatsApp is still trending (at midnight) at number one on social media platform Twitter (which is not owned by Facebook, and which has been working!).

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