In a blog post, Downdetector said the outage was global and the largest it had ever seen. A map on the site showed, for instance, reports of outages.

“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.įacebook said it had “no evidence” that user data was compromised.įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp became inaccessible for large numbers of people at about 5pm UK time (12pm ET), with citing reports of problems from millions of social media users around the world. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication,” the statement said. In a later blog post, it said faulty configuration changes on its routers were the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now,” Facebook tweeted. This does remind many users of the time not long ago when all social media apps including WhatsApp had faced an outage and only Twitter was working.“To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. RT if it's down for you as well #FacebookMessengerdown RT if it's down for you as well #Instagramdownįacebook Messenger is having issues since 9:29 AM EST.

Instagram is having issues since 9:13 AM EST. #InstagramDownĪccording to Independent, all users faced different sorts of issues with some being able to view all content but the newsfeed not updating while for some the app had locked them out and users were not able to log in again.ĭowndetector, a website that detects when services go down or have outages was the first to take to their Twitter account and tell users that Instagram and Facebook went out around the same time. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps, including Instagram. The photo-sharing app took to their Twitter account to state that the company is aware of the problem and is working on fixing it too. Facebook, Instagram and Messenger users in Pakistan and around the world once again faced an outage as they were not able to share content or even log into their accounts.

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