Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down For Thousands Worldwide For The Second Time In 2021
Three important social and messaging services operated by Facebook were down on Monday afternoon as thousands of people worldwide reported outages.
According to outage monitor DownDetector, over 150,000 people said they could not access Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp in the space of just half an hour.
The issues started at about 4.30pm and as ar the moment of filing this report, the social media applications continued to experience timeouts.
The three applications, which are used by more than 2 billion people daily, are all handled by Facebook, which could not give reasons for the outages but apologised and said it was ‘working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible’.
A lot of people unable to access Facebook’s platform stated that they had been trying to use the website, although some discovered the app was also down.
Similarly, Instagram users reported outages widely across both the app and website versions. WhatsApp users were able to open the app but could not send or receive messages.
Some parts of the IT infrastructure they are based on have been integrated, hence, these issues will possibly affect all three at once.
Therefore, people are likely to have difficulty logging into other services they have signed up for using their Facebook logins, such as Spotify and Tinder, while the outages continue.
