However, after nearly three hours, they had still not been resolved. The holy trinity of social media apps, which are all owned by Facebook, started experiencing issues around 4pm GMT and didn't return for several hours. On sites like DownDetector and Down For Everyone or Just Me, users from around the world reported outages. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down on October 4 but luckily the memes on Twitter were enough to keep us throughly entertained. However, the cause of the outages was not identified. Facebook experienced its biggest global outage since 2008, with Instagram and WhatsApp also down as of Monday afternoon. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. The Facebook-owned companies all experienced a concurrent outage which meant that users could not access the platform websites or refresh their apps.Įach service confirmed that they were experiencing issues in posts on Twitter. Millions of users worldwide were unable to access WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook for nearly six hours on October 4. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all stopped working on Monday evening as the services experienced outages on 4 October.

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