WASHINGTON (AGENCIES) – The three apps – which are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm (12pm EST). Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working.
Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.
Facebook’s outages happen relatively rarely but tend to be vast in their impact, not least because they affect three of the world’s biggest apps.
The company is often cryptic about the causes of any issues, and does not tend to explain them even after they are fixed. In 2019, for instance, it suffered its biggest outage in years – and said only that it had “triggered an issue” during “routine maintenance operations”.
In a leaked transcript published in The Verge in 2019, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg noted that such outages are a “big deal”. Any problems can often lead people to start using competitors instead, he said, and noted that it can take “months” to win back trust and get people back on Facebook’s platforms – if they come back at all.
A company spokesperson said that it apologised for the problem but gave no indication of why the outage began or how long it might take to fix.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” spokesperson Andy Stone said on Twitter. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
The same statement was posted shortly after on the official Facebook Twitter page.
Instagram also shared a similar update.
“Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them,” it wrote on its communications page. “Bear with us, we’re on it!”
And WhatsApp also updated users through its official Twitter account.
“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible,” it said.
“Thanks for your patience!”
Facebook’s shares had already plunged sharply as trading began on Monday, probably because of other ongoing criticism in the wake of allegations shared by a whistleblower who previously worked at the company.
The fall continued after the outage began, however, with the price dropping even more.
“Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram are now not accessible”
These social media creeps almost turns our young people into ‘cyborgs’, they have also harvested our people data without consents, not even our young people, but also some of our adults who are not tech literate.
The other day there was https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1098286591?-21266:8599
When tell some of low lives, that South Sudan are way too well ahead of these creeps. Then they don’t listen. I worked for ‘Google’ some years in Canada. It a very dangerous and creepy online so-called ‘platform’, some people say, Google is free because it is free yeah? To be honest with you, google is free, doesn’t own Google. many countries around who satellites, own Google, however Google makes it ‘revenues’ through your ‘data’.
And that is why I linked that so-called embassy Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) in South Sudan. Indians are not our equals. being Indian oceans, doesn’t make it Indians. Indians are lowly educated and they are poorest on planet and Africans.
The dirty and evil here is. COLD WAR, is always fought over the over backs of other people and countries. It is called *the great game* https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiezaOm6LHzAhUGeisKHfOyAUoQFnoECDgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com.au%2FGreat-Game-Struggle-Empire-Central%2Fdp%2F1568360223&usg=AOvVaw2ikvuhHNK3cKxSsUTgZJI6
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by secret societies, Central Asia.
The secret societies’ criminals have their arses kicked out of Afghanistan, and they have to usual South Sudan, South Sudan is just next door to Democratic republic of Congo (former Zaire), Central Africa republic (C.A.R) and South Sudan is the one that has resources, on and on the Nilotic plain and valleys. And the evils, the who have attached themselves to country and over our, even swear, that there cannot be their cloned so-called of North Sudan, without South Sudan and the South Sudanese people, and their evil empire is under attack, and that whoever own the Nile, owns Africa.
The white Americans, English, some of lackeys here in the IGAD, North Sudan is our natural and we are going to settle our scores with it, Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute, is our direct enemy, we are going to bomb the evils back to Yemen, fellows, the vermins/parasites/viruses have attached themselves to our country and our to death. The current piece of shit in Tigrinya, was created by evils who think, these prostitutes are our equals, and told to run to Sudan. the dirty game is UN so-called AGENDA 21, THE UN SO-CALLED NEW WORLD ORDER, GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BORDERS, AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION, Humanitarian aid, donations, peacekeeping and human rights.
This dirty and shift has played over our country and people, by foreign criminals and secret societies of *former South African president piece of shit, Mr, Thabo Mbeki, current president of Rwanda, Mr. Kagame, former president of Tanzania, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete (what a name), current of Kenya Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, his arch rival, Mr. Raila Odinga, being Raila, he brags, he is the only operative in Africa?, being called Raila doesn’t mean, a railway (He was even African Infrastructures) by his admirers.
Former Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute criminal, Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn and his successor, Mr. Abiy Ahmed, he came to South Sudan and lecture our lowly elders, ‘AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION’ Oh yeah South Sudan and South Sudanese Abeshas (so-called ethiopians), Oh really?
There are evils who just love other people, however you don’t consider them anything. Mr. Abiy Ahmed is a lowly educated piece trash, he is going to be killed and his Oromo pieces are bombed to Yemen, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
There are shits, who project these vermins/parsite/viruses as superior than us,
I will damned our Region is not back South Sudan. That South Sudan ‘a landlocked country’ Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute is a landlocked county, they breed pigs/rabbits and have resources to support their, people, and why the have dangerously attached themselves South Sudan.
But these, game is scrounging over the backs other people and their countries, has never been a good idea.
Watch this space, The Muonyjaangs/Jaangs/Jenges/Dinkas of the Sudan are back with a lot vengeance, We are ‘Ethiopian’ Abeshas are nothing do with Ethiopia, we are the ancient Egyptians tell these low lives these ‘facts’, and they will go and used them as their own. Little do these low lives, know the so-called AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION is very dangerous for South Sudanese people.
Fellow, if we allow Abeshas (so-called ethiopans) prostitutes, Kenyans, Rwandans, Congolese, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, our arch enemies—-cloned so-called Arabs if North Sudan, Nigerians, white Americans, white English people, their evil juus (so-called) israelis into our country, then our South Sudanese who not well educated will come and complain, that their country is being taken over by foreigners, and another deadly war will engulf the region and even other continents, and this we have informed our low lives, to play it save, because we don’t want to be fighting other countries and people wars.
‘We are masters of longshot war fares—-the Muonyjangs/Jaangs/Jenges/Dinkas’. We don’t considers Bantuses anyone, they worship Europeans, Americans and Arabs.
We don’t marry them, they cannot afford a Muonyjang/Jaangs/Jenge/Dinka woman anyway. Fellows watch this space.>>>>