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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally

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I like how this is just a link to facebook.com --- the proof is in the pudding? Here's a link to downdetector though: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook

Just noticed this, wondering what is the cause behind a downage this serious - they rely on being constantly up and have huge investments in infrastructure to avoid this. Possible attack or a large change gone wrong?

Reminds me of the YouTube outage a few months ago. You never notice that these sites are never down until they’re down

Why are people upvoting this? It’s just a link to facebook.com and it’s not even true. All 3 services are working for me in Germany, so it’s definitely not “global”. A quick check on isitdownrighrnow.com tells me facebook and instagram are up and running.

Not having issues with Whatsapp here in France

Based in Austria, and definitely unable to access facebook and whatsapp. ...so it's probably a partial outage of sorts, but still a big deal.

Sure, "works for me" == everybody is lying. Great logic there

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/

I never said that.

"Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down for users around the world" says The Verge, which seems more accurate: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/14/18310069/facebook-instagr...

It's interesting to note that the same thing happened exactly one month ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/14/faceboo..., time to check the crontab?

It is partially down globally, even in Germany, just that not everyone is affected.

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/772045/facebook...

Having problems getting FB messenger, Facebook.com and Whatsapp to load/connect/deliver messages from the east coast of the US using both my mobile data plan and home internet connection

Nope, in EU its working fine

They're down here in Spain at least.

Not in Austria atm

Down in Italy

Working in Australia

Down for approaching 30mins in Switzerland (this is when my WhatsApp desktop client started showing connection errors)

Nope, having some problems

Seems to work from Germany.

Working in the UK.

Not for me it isn't.

Down in Singapore

Down in India

Down in Glasgow, Scotland, UK for ~ 30 mins

Down in Slovakia

Down in Canada (Quebec).

WhatsApp is Working being much more distributed.

Ghana. Whatsapp is fine but Facebook is down.

Down for me here in the UK.

Works fine in UK over EE and Virgin

WhatsApp is down in Prague

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