Interestingly this comes close on the heels of whistleblower Frances Haugen having just leaked confidential internal documents to the Wall Street Journal and Facebook currently under the spotlight by the US Senate. While the platforms are down, there has also been a decrease in Facebook stock by around 5.70% on NASDAQ.

While WhatsApp and Instagram saw over 30,000 and 18,000 reports respectively.īoth the Instagram and WhatsApp profiles on Twitter have posted about the current situation.

So, if you try to navigate to right now, the internet won’t know where to find .” TwitterĭownDetector, an online website that shows whether a platform or site is working or not, has apparently seen over 20,000 reports till yet about Facebook not working. Tech Crunch explains it as “this is the naming structure that forms the web’s infrastructure.

What Caused The Outage?Īpparently, as per sources, the outage is due to a DNS (domain name server) fail. Users of any of these platforms are unable to load the pages, any page, send messages, see profiles, basically, it is all down, even Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality platform and business communications tool Workplace. Turned, all three, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were down, extremely down, and even a few hours past it they have still not resumed function.Īccording to reports, this is not just limited to India but is being seen worldwide. Suddenly, it all went out, people rushed from platform to platform, trying to see which ones were down and which ones were still working.

Around 9 pm IST, people started to have certain issues with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

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