

Although a rare phenomenon, such an outage has had a huge impact on the site’s users, which include businesses. MaSAN FRANCISCO Facebook said on Thursday that it had repaired a technical error that led to long lapses in service at its various properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and. This is a rare blackout for Facebook, which is the world’s largest social media network and currently dominates the industry. There’s no word yet from Facebook about what may be causing the problem or when those sites, including Messenger and WhatsApp, will be operational again, but we will update with more information when it’s available. Users can load games they already have installed and the browser works, but social features or installing new games does not. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus. Currently, users impacted by the outage cannot send and receive any messages, nor can they post or view new content.

On Instagram and Whatsapp, users were able to load their old feeds and messages, but no new content was available. Those hoping to log into their Facebook accounts simply received an error page stating that their browser could not connect to the social media site, which hosts nearly three billion active users. As you can see from the data points used for DownDetector's WhatsApp outage reports, the number of reports quickly escalated to over 25,000 reports.
