At 3.50pm, four hours after the outage began, CTO Mike Schroepfer tweeted: '*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. NetBlocks, which tracks internet outages and their impact, estimate the outage has already cost the global economy $160m (£117 million). Above: The reports of Facebook outages reported on DownDetectorTwitter founder Jack Dorsey appeared to make light of Facebook's plight this evening. 'Today, the directions for how to get to Facebook’s DNS server’s addresses weren't available (and seem to still be unavailable). 'Today, the directions for how to get to Facebook’s DNS server’s addresses weren't available (and seem to still be unavailable).

Source: The Nation October 04, 2021 21:56 UTC