
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Facebook down - live updates: Company explains outage as WhatsApp, Instagram and other apps come back online. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” the official Facebook account on Twitter said. Not long after word of the outage started manifesting in jokes and memes, Facebook ironically took to Twitter to confirm they were working on it. It's always a weirdly exciting time when the go-to social media apps blink out, and the longer the outages last, the weirder things get. Around the same time, Instagram had shown nearly 76,000 outage reports. This morning, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down and stayed down for nearly an entire day. And while this doesn’t mark the first time the extended Facebook universe has been infiltrated with outages, the reactions are just as enthusiastic as always.Īt the time of this writing, Downdetector showed that reports of Facebook outages spiked at more than 86,000 around 11:42 a.m. The Mark Zuckerberg-led site-as well as the Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp platforms-went down for unknown reasons.

Instagram and WhatsApp are also returning after what the Wrap calls “DNS routing problems.”įacebook and related platforms hit users with the unique joys of a disruption in services on Monday. ET: Facebook is slowly coming back online around the world after a six-hour outage, The Wrap reports.
