Oculus and its VR headsets interwoven with Facebook accounts and services were also consequently hit by outages on Monday night. The instant image-based social media site, Instagram, was snapped up by Facebook in a $1 billion acquisition in 2012.įacebook went on to purchase WhatsApp in February 2014 for a whopping $19 billion before swallowing up VR hardware company, Oculus VR, in the same year. "Thanks for your patience!” Who owns Instagram and WhatsApp?īooming social media platforms Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook, the giant Big Tech company headed up by Mark Zuckerberg.
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"We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. WhatsApp took to Twitter to address the connectivity issues, writing at 5.16pm: "We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. Users saw a clock displaying next to messages on WhatsApp for hours during the outage, with the clock icon used to indicate that messages are still sending and awaiting a more stable connection to go through. Likewise users logging on to WhatsApp or trying to access its desktop platform were met with a loading screen and continuous ‘connecting’ status bar at the top of their screen. "We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience.” "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook wrote on its Twitter account.
Read more: WhatsApp will stop working on these smartphone models in the next two months When did Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go down yesterday?ĭown Detector saw user reports of issues in accessing Facebook spike at 39,059 at 4.41pm on Monday, with user reports of outages for WhatsApp spiking at 74,944 at 4.51pm.įacebook responded to reports of an outage affecting its sites at 5.22pm on Monday (4 October). Here’s what you need to know about why Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were down yesterday.
The cause of the tech outage is now confirmed to have arisen from configuration errors with Facebook’s Domain Name System (DNS).īut what caused the Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage last night? And why were websites down for so long? The company managed to get servers back online just before 12am on Monday night as users flocked to Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat and Signal for alternative means of online communication. After Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered a major outage lasting over six hours, the social media and messaging sites are back online – here’s what you need to know © Is Facebook still down? Here's why FB, Instagram and WhatsApp were down yesterday - and what BGP mea.įacebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all went down on Monday evening shortly after 4.30pm as users around the world found themselves unable to access the giant social media and messaging services across desktop and mobile devices.