Regarding the internal failures, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it feels like a “snow day.” Ironically, the company may have to take to Twitter to explain what is actually going on.Facebook's only public comment so far was a tweet in which it acknowledged that “some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app” and that it was working on restoring access. If you rely on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or Facebook Messenger for work, well, I have great news: You just got an extra Monday break! Check back from time to time to see if the apps come back online, or wait for Facebook to make some kind of an announcement. In those cases, it's often not up to those in charge of the sites or apps to fix things, but others that work on the so-called backbone of these internet-based social networks, apps, and other services.įor now, the best thing to do is make contact with whoever you need to contact using SMS or even Twitter, as both of those services appear to be just fine. Oftentimes the sites and services that go down are suffering from other internet-related issues not directly connected to their business or company. With stuff like this, it's really impossible to predict how long the downtime will last without the company offering some information on exactly what is going on. As you might expect, users have flocked to Twitter to complain about the downtime, with WhatsApp already trending high on the news lists and the other apps and services not far behind. This particular outage appears to be a bit different, as all of the services have remained down for close to a half-hour at the time of this writing and none of the sites or apps are showing signs that they are trying to come back online.

Related: Facebook Stops Instagram For Kids After Severe Backlashįacebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp have all experienced outages in the past, and sometimes the downtime is as brief as a few minutes. Even the Facebook Business status page is down, which suggests that whatever has taken the social giant down, the situation may actually be pretty serious. The apps for these services are also not responding, leaving users high and dry with nowhere to get updates on the status of the Facebook network. The same is true of WhatsApp, which fails to load online. At present, Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are not responding, leading to IP address errors on the web and elsewhere.

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