

Several users using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also facing issues.
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"They don't know how to contact the people in their lives without it," she said.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as a primary mode of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and chief executive of SocialProof Security. 'They don't know how to contact the people in their lives without it' Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, fell 4.9 per cent on Monday in the US, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks. The estimates were based on total Facebook and Instagram ad spending from major advertising agencies during January to August this year. The social media giant, which is the second-largest digital advertising platform in the world, was losing about $US545,000 ($747,000) in US ad revenue per hour during the outage, according to estimates from ad measurement firm Standard Media Index. Multiple employees said they had not been told what had gone wrong. One Facebook employee told Reuters that all internal tools were down. It is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, though one on a global scale is rare.įacebook's response was made much more difficult because employees lost access to some of their own tools in the shutdown, people tracking the matter said.

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's outgoing chief technology officer, tweeted that while Facebook services were coming back online it "may take some time to get to 100 per cent". Six hours later, about 8:45am AEDT, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users began to regain partial access to the social media app. Website monitoring group Downdetector said it was the largest such failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports globally. "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," the official Twitter accounts said. The social media giants confirmed the outage, which began around 2:45am AEDT, with messages posted to Twitter early on Tuesday. Sorry for the disruption today - I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about." The views and facts appearing in the social media post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY, also LatestLY does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.Facebook apologised but did not immediately explain what caused the failure.įacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an apology on his personal Facebook page, reading: "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. The above post is embeded directly from the user's social media account and LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body. (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends and information from social media world, including Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. RT if you're also having problems #Facebookdownįixed! The issue has been resolved and things should be working normally again across our apps. User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 3:00 PM EDT. RT if you're also having problems #Instagramdown User reports indicate Instagram is having problems since 3:00 PM EDT. RT if you're also having problems #FacebookMessengerdown

User reports indicate Facebook Messenger is having problems since 5:48 PM EDT. RT if you're also having problems #Whatsappdown User reports indicate Whatsapp is having problems since 3:09 PM EDT. Instagram Down: Website Not Working, Users Unable to Check Photos, Video and Insta Stories on Desktop. After the outage was resolved, Meta issued a statement saying that the issue has been resolved and that "things should be working normally again across our apps".

Notably, the services were restored after lakhs and crores of users faced outages for over two hours. According to a report in Reuters, META on Friday issued a statement saying that the services of its social media apps were restored. Facebook down." It was not only WhatsApp that was down but several apps of META including Facebook were down. One user said, "Some images from my gallery wont send," while a second user wrote, "Whatsapp voice and images not loading. Netizens took to social media to confirm the news. According to reports, several users of WhatsApp faced problems since 3:09 pm EDT.
