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Facebook, Instagram, Messenger & WhatsApp face the longest outage till date

Paawan Sunam

14 Mar 2019 07:37 IST

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Facebook and Facebook-owned platforms - Instagram, WhatsApp & Oculus faced an outage where users were able to open these platforms but were facing issues.

Users were facing issues in sending messages on Messenger, posting on the feed and accessing other features on these platforms. Oculus VR also had issues relating to its features.

WhatsApp Users in Bangladesh, Paraguay, India, and Argentina didn’t face issues in the earlier period of the outage but faced problems in sending messages later. The Facebook outage reportedly stretched for more than 10 hours around the world.

According to downdetector.com the most reported problems on Facebook were Log in (34%), News Feed (33%), Total Blackout (31%). The highest number of reported problems at one particular time in the last 24 hours is 12,211.

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The reported problems include the desktop version of the Messenger not working. Instagram Stories being down, posts not loading, direct messages malfunctioning and Facebook’s ads section not functioning.

Users couldn't even login other apps synced with Facebook, as the Facebook Username and Password weren't working too.

The social media platforms informed their users via Twitter about the outage and that they are working on it.

We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
— Meta (@Meta) March 13, 2019

We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.
— Meta (@Meta) March 13, 2019

We’re aware of an issue impacting people's access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.
— Instagram (@instagram) March 13, 2019

We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing and using Oculus. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience while we work through this.
— Meta Quest Help (@MetaQuestHelp) March 13, 2019

Instagram a few hours ago informed that they're back.

Anddddd... we're back. pic.twitter.com/5E8UdlcsPJ
— Instagram (@instagram) March 14, 2019

Seems like Snapchat and Twitter had the last laugh yesterday.

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