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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down in Sudden Global Outage


Mon 04 Oct 2021 | 06:14 PM
Omnia Ahmed

Social media giants Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down in a global outage, DownDetector reported on Monday.

The three platforms have gone down for thousands of users across the globe. Problems with the services, which are all owned by Facebook, began around 4:30pm BST (11:30am T), according to online outage trackers.

https://twitter.com/inquirerdotnet/status/1445053222758936576

Meanwhile, users are unable to access the smartphone apps and websites of the hugely popular services.

More than 20,000 WhatsApp users reported issues using the global instant messaging service from about 4pm UK time.

That went up to 36,298 for Facebook, with up to 76% of reports were related to the website while 14% were linked to the app, while a total of 12,144 reported issues with Instagram, the Mirror reported.

"We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," a spokesperson said. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1445060216161116168

 

Instagram also made an announcement, calling everyone to "Bear with us" as they are working on the problem.

Moreover, Facebook said: "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

Currently, people are rushing to Twitter, taking  the opportunity to make others laugh while they wait for their unsend messages to deliver.

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