Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all experiencing
issues this morning for users worldwide. Facebook and Instagram were
both inaccessible, with news feeds refusing to refresh and the main
Facebook.com domain unavailable for more than two hours. WhatsApp
messages were also unable to be sent or received, and users of
Facebook’s main services (Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp) headed
to Twitter to share that they were having issues. Messenger, Facebook’s
chat service, was also down for more than two hours.
The outages appear to have started at around 6:30AM ET
this morning, and some locations were more widely affected than others.
“Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble connecting to
the family of apps,” says a Facebook spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.
“The issue has since been resolved; we’re sorry for any inconvenience.”
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all started to come back online at
around 9AM ET this morning.
Facebook’s issues come just a month after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever.
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all inaccessible for hours last
month, and it wasn’t until over 24 hours later that Facebook finally
gave the all clear. Facebook blamed a “server configuration change,” and
apologized for the outages.