Meanwhile, the social-media giant's instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 35,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 9,800 users.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. 'We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.' The official handles of WhatsApp and Instagram also took to Twitter to confirm the outage.įacebook shares fell 5.5% in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year.ĭowndetector, which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,' the social media giant's official Twitter handle said on Monday. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July. However, the error message on Facebook's webpage suggested a Domain Name System (DNS) error.ĭNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the services. Facebook Inc's main social media site, popular photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp, were down for tens of thousands of users, according to outage tracking website.

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