

In its blog post, Cloudflare has highlighted that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s DNS names (the internet protocol to convert words like to a language that computers understand) stopped resolving, and their infrastructure IP addresses were unreachable. Facebook, WhatsApp And Instagram Outage: The Issue

In the meantime, users also reported that the domain name was up for sale. Amid the outrage, Facebook shares fell by 4.9% on October 4, 2021, the biggest daily drop since November 2020.

Together, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have 3.5 Bn users worldwide.
