Instagram down : WhatsApp and Facebook messenger also hit by mass outages
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Facebook suffered a major outage of its social network on Friday, which also hit other platforms that it owns.
Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp were all down, with users around the world unable to use the services properly.
Website and app monitor Down Detector recorded tens of thousands of reports of issues with the four platforms.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Independent:
“We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Here’s the moment Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp all went down simultaneously:
Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger have stopped working
Instagram, WhatsApp and FacebookMessenger have gone down for users across the world.
We’ve reached out to Facebook to see what they have to day - we’ll let you know as soon as we have an update.
No word from their various social media accounts either. Outages have been reported in countries around the world, including Canada, Brazil, France, Russia the UK, and US.
A lot of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users are heading to Twitter, as is customary during a major outage.
Service appears to be returning for many users now. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have all returned for us here at least.
Reports of issues with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Down Detector have fallen from above 100,000, to just a few thousand.
It was a relatively brief outage, but with billions of users around the world it has a massive impact. Still no word from Facebook.
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Here’s what Facebook had to say about the outage:
Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services. We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
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