“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook representative Andy Stone acknowledged on - you guessed it - Twitter. How will we ever live without posting a heavily edited photo, insisting it’s “natural?”īut have no fear: Twitter was not affected by the outage and, of course, users on the platform have something to say about the horrific, disastrous event plaguing the globe. Meta culpa: Zuckerberg takes the blame as social media giant lays off 11K workers - ‘I got this wrong’įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down - and that means social media is at an impasse. Meta employees slam social media giant for conducting layoffs by email While social media users reported that they faced WhatsApp outage around 8.45pm (local time), showed that reports of Facebook outage increased around 8.57pm (local time).įacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp took to Twitter to release a statement regarding the outage.A Facebook memories photo made me realize I had cancerĭad of four livestreamed suicide on Facebook as distraught friends watched The website also showed that at least 87,000 people, till the time of writing this reported that they could not access Facebook. Netizens react with hilarious memes as as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp face To be fair, we must note that most commonly such outages are caused by non-malicious actions – suspect it to be the case here too," Wüest said in an email statement. Depending on what service is attacked – for example, if it’s a central authentication server shared between multiple brands, like in this case, then such a single outage can lead to multiple brands going offline. “While there’s no confirmation on what caused the incident from Facebook Inc, it’s possible that the issue lies with the BGP or DNS protocol – which happen to be popular targets among cyber criminals…. The outage has impacted potentially tens of millions of users.Ĭandid Wüest, Acronis's VP of Cyber Protection Research, said the outage may have happened due to issues with the BGP or DNS protocol.
News agencies Reuters and AFP have confirmed that the outage is faced by users worldwide. The WhatsApp messaging app is unable to send or receive messages while Instagram and Facebook's messaging platforms are also facing an outage. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
The Facebook website shows an error message “Sorry, something went wrong. Instagram is also showing the same - 5xx Server Error message - message. The is also displaying this error message - 5xx Server Error. More than 20,000 people have reported that the WhatsApp is not working for them. , a website that tracks issues related to traffic on major websites, also saw a spike in number of reports which confirmed that a large number of people are unable to access WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
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