That’s what you’re seeing in the screenshot from Down Detector. So when Facebook does fail, people are far more likely yo blame their phone, carrier, mobile network or home ISP. After all, Facebook spends massive money to make sure they continue making money through even the heaviest of traffic spikes. When your Instagram feed stops refreshing, you’re more likely to flick airplane mode on and back off again, or reset your modem. Why is that? Down Detector dashboard incorrectly suggesting ISP and network issues On top of the Facebook estate, mobile networks and home ISPs all show similar spikes in reported errors. Down Detector Suggests Issues With ISPs, Carriers And Mobile NetworksĪ look at the Down Detector status screen suggests this isn’t just a Facebook issue. It’s all relative and as a result, usually pretty accurate.īut tonight’s outage has shown some weakness in this approach.

Just one event, like a tweet, can’t cause a spike. Combining these many sources of information and validating as much as possible, Down Detector then provides a graph that shows spikes in likely outages. For example, amongst many other factors, they monitor Twitter for mentions of outages or mentions of things like “is Facebook down”. The people behind the service have built a platform that monitors several places people turn to when something on the internet breaks. What gives? How Does Down Detector Work?ĭown Detector is a really simple concept. But a look at Down Detector suggests it’s not just Facebook and that internet service provider (ISPs) are also having a global issue. Not that I’m feeling it much given I’ve quit Facebook and deleted WhatsApp. It is the worst outage for the company since 2008 and at the time of writing is still ongoing.

Today, Facebook platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and even Facebook’s new app for RayBan Stories, all went down. Down Detector is a really useful tool for confirming it’s not just you and everyone else’s phone isn’t working either.

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