Facebook, ‘family of apps’ down worldwide
Credit to Author: ARIC JOHN SY CUA| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:51:15 +0000
NETIZENS worldwide woke up on Thursday without Facebook, as well as photo sharing and instant messaging applications Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Facebook users may experience little to no access on the app and on the browsers. Similarly, Instagram users either could not log in or may be slow to loading on the browsers or apps.
Outage Report, a website tracking down outages in networks and apps, tallied 18,513 reports of Facebook being down worldwide on Wednesday, with 454 on Thursday. Instagram tallied 26,015 downtime reports on Wednesday worldwide, with 902 on Thursday.
In a statement on Twitter, Facebook said it was working to resolve the problem.
“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Facebook tweeted.
“We’re focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS [Distributed Denial of Service] attack.”
Instagram also posted a similar statement, amidst the downtime.
“We’re aware of an issue impacting people’s access to Instagram right now,” the photo sharing app said on Twitter. “We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.”
Google Mail had a similar outage on Wednesday, with 582 downtime reports, according to Outage Report.
Social media giant Facebook has around 2.32 billion users worldwide, according to digital marketing group Zephora.
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