“The abruptness of today’s outage highlights the staggering level of precarity that structures our increasingly digitally mediated work economy,” said Brooke Erin Duffy, a professor of communications at Cornell University.
Facebook’s last significant outage was in 2019, when a technical error affected its sites for 24 hours, in a reminder that a snafu can cripple even the most powerful internet companies.” By the time normal service resumed around 5:45 pm, Facebook stock had fallen 4.9% to $326.23, its worst daily loss since November 2020.Ĭonfiguration changes to its routers disrupted network traffic and the disruption “had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Facebook said in a blog post.Īs The New York Times reports, ‘Technology outages are not uncommon, but to have so many apps go dark from the world’s largest social media company at the same time was highly unusual.
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