Instagram, Facebook and Messenger down – live updates: Users unable to access apps amid major Thanksgiving outage

Facebook and Instagram down

Instagram, Facebook and Messenger have gone down in a major Thanksgiving outage.

Almost all of Facebook's products were hit by the problems, with the exception of WhatsApp, which appears to have successfully stayed online.

The problems were seen across the world, though did not appear to affect all users the same. Some said they were still able to see parts of each app, while others reported that the services appeared to be working as normal.

The outage recalls the major problems over summer, during which the entire Facebook suits of products went offline for almost a day.

Please allow a moment for the live blog to load

[28 November 2019 14:55 · Andrew Griffin]

Welcome to The Independent's coverage of the Instagram, Facebook and Messenger outage.

[28 November 2019 14:59 · Andrew Griffin]

[28 November 2019 15:00 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's our story about Facebook being down

[28 November 2019 15:00 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's our story about Instagram being down

[28 November 2019 15:01 · Andrew Griffin]

And – last but not least – here's our story about Facebook Messenger being down

[28 November 2019 15:03 · Andrew Griffin]

[28 November 2019 15:03 · Andrew Griffin]

Facebook was hit by problems during the last UK election period, too. Here's a story from June 2017, when the site went down on election day.

[28 November 2019 15:06 · Andrew Griffin]

Thanksgiving outage leads to jokes and frustration

Reaction on Twitter – which is still working – is somewhere between joy and frustration that people won't be able to post about Thanksgiving:

[28 November 2019 15:08 · Andrew Griffin]

Facebook's status page says site is still working

Facebook's server status page – which is intended to announce when there are problems with the platform – suggests that the site is still working:

This page is intended for developers, which is why it focuses on how the platform itself is working rather than whether the site is working. But even on there, as can be seen, there seems to be an uptick of problems recently.

Instagram doesn't have a version of this site. During previous widespread outages, the company has posted on its Twitter account, but it has not yet done so.

[28 November 2019 15:10 · Andrew Griffin]

Instagram's Thanksgiving post remains last tweet on profile

Instagram's last official tweet was about Thanksgiving pie, noting that most people had been posting about pumpkin, followed by pecan. But sadly people won't now be able to post them.