When Facebook goes down, it’s a bad day on the internet, and today is particularly stormy. The cascading impact of an outage to a core service like this can be confusing for people experiencing problems with a service seemingly completely unrelated to Facebook. Any service that relies on Facebook for any part of its infrastructure will have experienced problems today to a varying degree. Facebook also provides a method to authenticate (log in) for users of many internet applications. Facebook operates one of the largest advertising networks in the world, used by countless websites and mobile applications. Many people may not realize the reach of Facebook’s services into other seemingly unrelated applications. But the scope of the impact extends far beyond direct users of these services. The combined popularity of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger means that billions of users have been impacted by the services being entirely offline today. PDT) and duration this is an extremely impactful event. The global Facebook outage is now one of the largest ever tracked on Downdetector® in terms of the total number of reports (over 14 million as of 3:30 p.m. This is how Luke Deryckx, CTO of Ookla®, summed up today’s events: PDT, Facebook is back up and user reports to Downdetector are declining. PDT - The outage appears to be resolvedĪs of 3:30 p.m. One user tweeted: “Welcome to another episode of ‘is messenger down or is it just my internet acting up’." Another wrote: “Here we go again.” A third tweeted, with the crying emoji: “Not messenger acting while im literally in a middle of an argument.Facebook is currently experiencing a rarely seen global outage that is taking out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Others took to Twitter to report the outages. Meanwhile, for Instagram, 76% of reported problems are about the app, 12% are about the feed and 12% are about logging in.
The site reports that 74% of the Messenger issues are affecting the sending of messages, 19% are struggling to use the app and seven percent are unable to use the website.
Read more: 'Teething problems' sees Exeter electric car charging points removed London, Birmingham and Manchester are having the most problems with Instagram. DownDetector, the website which monitors outages on popular sites, recorded a spike at 4pm as people registered problems with both Messenger and Instagram.Īccording to DownDetector, Bristol and London are the areas having the most problems with Messenger. Reports began to surface at around 4pm today. Photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram is also affected. Facebook Messenger has unexpectedly crashed, preventing numerous users across the UK from sending and receiving instant text messages as well as photos and videos.
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