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| Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp experience MASSIVE outages around globe – reports | Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp experience MASSIVE outages around globe – reports |
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| Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have gone down, users around the world and service issue monitor Downdetector reported on Friday. | Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have gone down, users around the world and service issue monitor Downdetector reported on Friday. |
| Claims that the social networking services, all owned by Facebook Inc, had gone down first surfaced at around 1:00pm Eastern Time. | Claims that the social networking services, all owned by Facebook Inc, had gone down first surfaced at around 1:00pm Eastern Time. |
| There have been as many as 1.2 million reports of problems with Instagram and at least 23,000 for WhatsApp, according to information on Downdetector.com. | There have been as many as 1.2 million reports of problems with Instagram and at least 23,000 for WhatsApp, according to information on Downdetector.com. |
| Some users were hit with error messages as they tried to open apps, while news feeds and messaging services also encountered problems, according to reports. | Some users were hit with error messages as they tried to open apps, while news feeds and messaging services also encountered problems, according to reports. |
| While trying to access Instagram, some users said they were greeted by a message reading: “We're sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again.” Similar issues were reported in WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. | |
| Disgruntled users of the apps from countries including the UK, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Russia all said they’d had trouble with outages. | |
| Facebook’s ‘Platform Status’ page for developers says that service on the social networking giant is “healthy” and that any user issues should now be resolved. | |
| An earlier statement had read: “We are aware of an outage affecting Facebook Platform Developer Products and are working to resolve this.” | |
| The number of outages reported by users to Downdetector in the last 24 hours for Facebook and its associated apps appeared to decrease sharply from around 2:20pm ET on Friday, according to data on its website. | |
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