The issue is said to be around server connection. Talking about Instagram, Downdetector, the website that tracks services and websites, shows that there are roughly 8,000 users who reported issues. The Downdetector website shows almost 9,000 crash reports for WhatsApp. The outage appeared to affect Facebook's internal websites as well, famed developer Jane Wong noted in a tweet.As per Downdetector data, WhatsApp users are reporting issues in the app as well as sending messages. People took to DownDetector as they were welcomed with 'sorry something went wrong' error message from Facebook and Instagram. The outage was the second in less than a month for the social networking giant. In April, Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of users for a couple of hours in various parts of the world. You know who's in-charge now?' another user posted.Ĭurrently, there is no comment from the social media giant about what may be causing the problem or when these sites will be operational again. 'Instagram down, Facebook down, WhatsApp down. 'Everyone rushing to Twitter to see if WhatsApp is actually down,' another tweeted. 'All of us coming to Twitter to see if Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook are really down,' a user tweeted. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can,' a message on the Facebook website read. People took to Twitter to report the problems they were facing with Facebook family apps, including posting memes and GIFs.

We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,' Andy Stone, Facebook communications executive said in a tweet.Īccording to DownDetector, a website that tracks WhatsApp outages, 40 per cent users were unable to download the app, 30 per cent had trouble in sending messages and 22 per cent had problems with the web version. 'We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.

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