According to data from website monitoring service Downdetector, all the three services have seen a massive spike in issues in the last one hour.
The services of the three global social media platforms, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The Independent UK reported that the social media apps which are owned by Facebook Inc and run on shared infrastructure all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm on Monday, October 4th,2021.
According to The Independent, a spokesperson of the social media giant, Andy Stone, has said the company apologised for the problem but gave no indication of why the outage began or how long it might take to fix it.
He said “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook said on Twitter. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, DC, said users in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East have reported outages.
“This seems like a global outage, and it’s already gone on a lot longer than the 2019 shutdown which lasted for about an hour, which was caused by technical problems, according to WhatsApp then,” Fisher said. “This is obviously very concerning,”
The error message appearing on Facebook.com throughout the day read: “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
