Facebook's 12-hr outage was largest for any social media since 2012

The recent Facebook outage, that began on March 13 evening and lasted for 12 hours, was the largest outage for any social media platform since 2012, real-time outages overview platform Downdetector has said. "Our systems processed about 7.5 million problem reports from users," said Downdetector. A YouTube outage on October 17, 2018, ranks as the second-largest outage ever.