Yesterday millions of users were left clueless in the evening when Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp and photo-sharing platform Instagram entered a global outage. This problem was soon brought up by the users. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earlier the outage began around 1200 GMT and affected Facebook as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp services.
Facebook has resolved the issue and the social media platform is now working for all users. In an official statement, Facebook noted, “Earlier today, some people and businesses experienced trouble uploading or sending images, videos and other files on our apps and platforms. The issue has since been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone. We’re sorry for any inconvenience.”
The problem it seems is with Facebook servers, which power all three services.
Earlier today, some people and businesses experienced trouble uploading or sending images, videos and other files on our apps and platforms. The issue has since been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone. We're sorry for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@facebook) July 4, 2019
While this incident took place, a lot of users shared their issues and frustration via memes on twitter using #facebookdown and #instagramdown.
People took on to Twitter to share their experiences.
#facebookdown#instagramdown
Twitter: 👑👑👑 pic.twitter.com/a1a2FdXkIH— E! News (@enews) July 3, 2019
D’oh! Still can’t find the any key. #InstagramDown #FacebookDown #TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/WZhWBiVVtB
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) July 3, 2019
My friends instagram posts look so good rn 🥰 #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/Fo8IqaRxOR
— The Movies (@great_movies_en) July 3, 2019
This is Twitter users when Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp is Down #instagramdown #WhatsAppDown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/3XKapghtOU
— Atul Shokeen (@AtulShokeen2) July 3, 2019
Everybody at this moment! #instagramdown #Facebookdown pic.twitter.com/cAqI9sbiNu
— Alifiyah M. Haji (@AlifiyahHaji) July 3, 2019
•Facebook photos not loading
•Restarts device
•Photos not loading
•Turns WiFi on
•Photos not loading
•Restarts WiFi router
•Photos not loading
•Opens Twitter and #facebookdown
•Reads thread
•Relieved phone is not broken
•Pissed cause so much time wasted— Joshua Hernandez (@jhrnandz89) July 3, 2019
Me turning my wifi on and off 25 times in a row and suddenly opens twitter and realized… ohh! stop blaming your wifi Everytime😂🤣🤣🤣 #instagramdown #WhatsAppDown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/lbNbLixIiM
— meinrad junior (@meinrad395) July 3, 2019
#instagramdown
Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp joining together to not fix their apps pic.twitter.com/iaOTM5FlMR— 𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙖 (@athiccena) July 3, 2019
When everybody's crying about Whatsapp, Facebook and instagram being down but we've got Twitter.😂#whatsappdown #facebookdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/VMJfccoPtA
— Gideon🇸🇱 (@BanguraGideon) July 3, 2019
Earlier in March too all three services had suffered downtime and the problem lasted for hours. Although at that time too, not many issues were reported by Indian WhatsApp users. Also, the outage happened in the early morning hours, when most users in India were sleeping. At that time Facebook made a statement saying, “As a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services… We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.”
A Facebook spokesman later speaking on behalf of all three apps explained that a “routine maintenance operation” accidentally triggered a bug which made it difficult for users to upload or send photos and videos.
We’re back! The issue has been resolved and we should be back at 100% for everyone. We're sorry for any inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/yKKtHfCYMA
— Instagram (@instagram) July 3, 2019
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