"We can see what happened, but we don't know exactly what was the cause," said Marek Kowalkiewicz, director of the Centre for the Digital Economy at QUT.
So, what happened? And how could a company this big suffer such a glitch? How Facebook fell off the 'map of the internet' Messages would not send on Messenger money would not flow on WhatsApp money transfer pages that used Facebook for logins locked users out.Īt Facebook itself, employees reportedly could not use their keycards to enter buildings or access standard office software for work and collaboration.įacebook boss Mark Zuckerberg lost $US9.6 billion as the company's share price plunged.Īs chaos reigned, Facebook executives took to the rival platform Twitter to explain what was happening, and apologise to their own users.īy midmorning, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users began to regain partial access. The effect of that rippled around the globe, as one after the other of its network of services went dark. The tech giant with billions of users and a mission statement of "bring the world closer together" suffered a mysterious technical breakdown early this morning New Zealand time.
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