I believe its mostly due to users flocking in to check why Facebook owned sites are down. See below entry for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

I believe its mostly due to users flocking in to check why Facebook owned sites are down. See below entry for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203