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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by cronix on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:54PM (#19382986)
It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major sites/backbones are having issues (Verizon/ATT/Sprint/CenturyLink/TMobile/Comcast/Level3/etc).
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:56PM (#19383017)
That site relies on user reports.

I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right.

For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by cronix on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:04PM (#19383135)
That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:07PM (#19383183)
The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports.

It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by cronix on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:09PM (#19383201)
Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:10PM (#19383210)
That doesn't make any sense, given that the "traffic" tab's scale says "7% above normal".

The red are the areas with the most attacks, and as you'd expect, they correspond to large population centers. (It's also not very granular, and appears to largely correspond to "where does Akamai have a datacenter".)

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by snazz on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:02PM (#19383747)
It’s a poorly designed graphic that’s hard to get any real info from.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by calebegg on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:13AM (#19386480)
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by mv4 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @08:31PM (#19385412)
That chart is a marketing tool, nothing more.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by jnothing on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:59PM (#19383064)
Yeah in Turkey people thought government is slowing down/blocking the whole internet
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by ulucs on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:24AM (#19386714)
To be fair, the priors lean into that rather than Facebook and Whatsapp having troubles.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by mclightning on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:55AM (#19387260)
Yes, I had that exact problem yesterday. I couldnt upload pictures/videos/gifs on whatsapp and instagram.

I thought maybe my ISP blocked a port which these services maybe transferring their multimedia on.

/Sweden

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by onychomys on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:01PM (#19383099)
That's a fair point, but those folks probably aren't reporting AWS problems, and it's showing a spike too.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:04PM (#19383131)
AWS is reporting an EC2 outage ("increased API error rates and launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region") in Oregon currently.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by wybiral on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:59PM (#19383073)
I believe that too but some of the services seem unrelated (like Flickr and Capital One).

Now, another interpretation is that the reports are simply false...

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by wybiral on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:58PM (#19383053)
Ironically https://outage.report/ is down too.

Edit: it's back now (8:37 PM UTC)

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Re:Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an appare... by blang on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:54PM (#19382998)
HN was down for a minute.
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