
More than 75,000 had complained about WhatsApp, with 43% reporting issues with the app itself, while 28% cited the server connection and 28% relating to sending messages. Most complaints cited issues with the website (72%), while others were linked to issues with the server connection and the app.

More than 3.5 billion people around the world use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp to communicate with friends and family, distribute political messaging, and expand their businesses through advertising and outreach.ĭata on the web service monitoring platform DownDetector showed that almost 50,000 people in the UK had reported the outages on Facebook by just after 5pm - 30 minutes after it first went down. Social media sites were down for a total of 7 hours. Read more: Are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp working this morning? Everything we know after massive outage How long were the sites down for?

In June this year, a major outage affected all Facebook platforms, and just last month. SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of US users across Meta Platforms’ social media offerings Instagram and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp reported outages on Monday. 'A faulty configuration change' was to blame for world wide outages which lasted to around 11.30pm. Back in March 2019, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down, going back online about 14 hours later. Some Twitter users mentioned that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp all went down on the day following a '60 Minutes' report about Facebook and Instagram. Power plant operators which manipulate the energy market to make excessive profits at the expense of households face a regulatory crackdown.

Reports starting coming through at 4.30pm yesterday (4 October) that Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were 'down' and inaccessible. Social media users will be pleased to know that their favourite sites are back up and running as they wake up this morning.
