![]() ![]() Facebook users, including brand marketers, expressed their outrage on Twitter with the #facebookdown hashtag.įacebook, which gets a vast majority of its revenue from advertising, told Bloomberg that it was still investigating the overall impact “including the possibility of refunds for advertisers.” A Facebook spokesman confirmed the outage, but did not provide an update. The abruptness of today’s outage highlights the staggering level of precarity that structures our increasingly digitally mediated work economy. ![]() Social media users in parts of United States, Japan and some parts Europe were affected by the outage, according to DownDetector’s live outage map. Today’s outage brought our reliance on Facebook and its properties like WhatsApp and Instagram into sharp relief, said Brooke Erin Duffy, a professor of communications at Cornell University. The Menlo Park, California-based company took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue, which had been plaguing some users for over 10 hours, as soon as possible and confirmed that the matter was not related to a DDoS(distributed denial-of-service) attack. Facebook Inc said on March 13 some users around the world were facing trouble in accessing its widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps, making it one of the longest outages the company has suffered in the recent past. ![]()
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