Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all down - live updates amid ...
Social media apps Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp appear to be down worldwide, with thousands of Irish users affected.
It appears that Meta has suffered a widespread outage. The gremlins appear to have started around 6pm and are still ongoing at the time of writing, with no word on when it will be fixed.
Downdetector - which monitors outages across the globe - is showing over 100,000 reports of Facebook being down. Instagram stands at over 12,000 complaints and WhatsApp at over 10,000, making this one of the biggest issues for Meta in years.
It's unclear what is causing the problems but many Facebook and Instagram users have dashed to rival social site, X (formerly Twitter) to vent their anger.
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22:02Anita McSorley
It appears WhatsApp is back up and running, however some users are still reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.
19:26Anita McSorley
In a post on X, Meta said: "We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience."
19:18KEY EVENT
People have rushed to X (formerly Twitter) to vent about the outages.
One person joked: "Me running to Twitter to see if everyone else’s #Whatsapp #Facebook #Instagram is down or if it’s my internet."
Another wrote: "everyone on their way to twitter because facebook & instagram is down.."
A third said: "My Facebook messenger going down and I suddenly feel like I'm on an island all alone"
Another user shared: "Facebook is down, so naturally, everyone’s flocking to Twitter to confirm it’s not just them. Classic."
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19:14Anita McSorley
There have been numerous instances of Meta and other social media apps having issues and reporting outages. Earlier this year Facebook users suffered an outage after they were met with log in errors.
Mark Zuckerberg previously apologised after Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram went down for nearly six hours in October 2021. During the outage, potentially billions of people were left wihtout access to the social media tools they heavily relied on for communication with friends and family.
The repercussions also extended to Mark Zuckerberg at the time, with an estimated $6 billion loss in his personal fortune as Facebook shares experienced a sharp decline. Zuckerberg wrote in a post: "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today -- I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about."
19:10Anita McSorley
According to Downdetector, users in Ireland first started having issues with Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger around 5.40pm.
