What caused the global WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook outage? People were devoid of basic communication and had to turn towards other applications. While Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook remained down for nearly six hours, which is one of the longest outages in the history of the company, several small businesses suffered while e-commerce slowed down significantly. Jokes were made about some of the reasons behind the social media outage, but there was no clarity as to why it was happening, and why the applications were down for such a long time. People relied on applications such as Twitter and Telegram during this global social media outage, which began post 10 pm on October 4 and lasted till the early hours of October 5. 'If your game isn't running as usual, please note that there's been an issue with Facebook login servers and the moment this gets fixed all will be back to normal,' puzzle game app Match Masters said on its Twitter account.Three of the biggest social media applications in the world, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, which are all Facebook-owned properties, were down yesterday for nearly six hours, which left netizens across the globe confused and enraged throughout the night. Several subscribers using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also facing issues. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.'įacebook shares fell 5.5 percent in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message: 'Something went wrong. 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,' Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said on Twitter. Tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas including Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 3:45 p.m.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users.

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