Users can load games they already have installed and the browser works, but social features or installing new games does not. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus. is flashing a 5xx Server Error message, while the Facebook site merely tells us that something went wrong.

Any problems can often lead people to start using competitors instead, and noted that it can take “months” to win back trust and get people back on Facebook’s platforms – if they come back at all. In a leaked transcript published in The Verge in 2019, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg note that such outages are a “big deal”. In 2019, for instance, it suffered its biggest outage in years – and said only that it had “triggered an issue” during “routine maintenance operations”. The company is often cryptic about the causes of any issues, and does not tend to explain them even after they are fixed. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown- Instagram Comms October 4, 2021 Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Facebook App October 4, 2021 We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app.

The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.įacebook’s outages happen relatively rarely but tend to be vast in their impact, not least because they affect three of the world’s biggest apps. Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. On this day Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR have all gone down in a major outage. Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR

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