{"id":106511,"date":"2017-05-08T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=106511"},"modified":"2017-05-08T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:44:20","slug":"breaking-news-facebook-suffers-global-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-news-facebook-suffers-global-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Suffers Worldwide Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest social media giant was experiencing technical difficulties Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Users worldwide reported issues with the network&#8212;&#8211;an outage map on the website DownDetector showed the scale of the failure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DEVELOPING: Facebook Down For Users Worldwide; Cause of Interruption Unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OHLMVEiAJ6\">pic.twitter.com\/OHLMVEiAJ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/861768252489420801\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As predicted, users took to other platforms to complain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Facebook should stay down forever <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebookdown?src=hash\">#facebookdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PMx8CIIv3K\">pic.twitter.com\/PMx8CIIv3K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teci (@Teci4U) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Teci4U\/status\/861765823685419008\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebook?src=hash\">#facebook<\/a> is down!<\/p>\n<p>Global <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/productivity?src=hash\">#productivity<\/a> just increased by 90%!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marshall Hughes (@ozmarshall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ozmarshall\/status\/861756278640529408\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We don&#8217;t mean to alarm you but FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!! How will we know what you ate for lunch!? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j3z6Uf4q13\">pic.twitter.com\/j3z6Uf4q13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NSW Police (@nswpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nswpolice\/status\/861754804384681984\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We cross live now to the ops center at Facebook. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebookdown?src=hash\">#facebookdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9EEKtLGB4\">pic.twitter.com\/v9EEKtLGB4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wolf Cocklin (@wolfcat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wolfcat\/status\/861755725600522240\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Facebook is down right now, chill yo guys<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al-Oliver Alonzo? (@oliverxalonzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliverxalonzo\/status\/861760513423937536\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RT if you came here because facebook is down ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facebookdown?src=hash\">#facebookdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carley Rose Wolski (@CarleyRose_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarleyRose_\/status\/861760006634430465\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With Facebook down, online journalists have all the time in the world to write their stories about how Facebook is down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Whittaker (@thetowncrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetowncrier\/status\/861758636594352128\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A cause for the\u00a0crash was not known. Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-massive-global-whatsapp-outage\/\">Facebook&#8217;s &#8216;WhatsApp&#8217; went down.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest social media giant was experiencing technical difficulties Monday evening. Users worldwide reported issues with the network&#8212;&#8211;an outage map on the website DownDetector showed the scale of the failure. 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