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Don’t Have A Meltdown: Is Facebook, WhatsApp, And Instagram Down?
Facebook and Instagram users, don’t have a meltdown. It is not your connection or that you’re banned, but simply both sites are down.
Facebook and Instagram users don’t have a meltdown. It is not your connection or that you’re banned, but simply both sites are down.
Social media Facebook and Instagram are down
The Daily Mail reports website Down Detector, shows the outage appears to have started around 4:48 p.m. (ET), with worldwide reports within an hour.
“A live outage map shows hotspots in the northeastern region of the US, as well as some parts of Europe.
Users reported having issues logging into the service, posting comments and viewing photos.
As a result, Facebook-owned apps like Messenger and WhatsApp appeared to have also been hit by the outage, albeit there being fewer user reports on Down Detector.”
Errors
Facebook showed an error message for some users on its site that read: ‘Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue.
‘We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.’
For others, users cannot see comments, notifications, or create posts.
As of now the internet company has not released a statement on the matter.
Update:
By 7pm, the issue on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appeared to have resolved.
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