Meanwhile, the social-media giant's instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 35,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 9,800 users.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. WhatsApp problems in the last 24 hours The following chart shows the number of reports that we have received about WhatsApp by time of day over the past 24 hours. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.įacebook shares fell 5.5% in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year. Whatsapp allows users to send and recieve messages, photos, and other information and is considered an alternative to text messages or SMS. However, the error message on Facebook's webpage suggested a Domain Name System (DNS) error.ĭNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the services. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down: Twitter floods with hilarious posts WhatsApp had last went down in March and was restored hours later, however, the reason for the outage was not officially announced by the company. Photo-sharing app Instagram had also gone down earlier this month and was stored after hours. The website mentioned that the Instagram outage was reported first at 7:59pm, while Facebook went down almost around the same time. The Downdetector, which offers real-time status and outage information for all kinds of services, showed that WhatsApp outage was reported at 8:23pm (Pakistan Standard Time) and it shot up to 17,659 complaints by 9:06pm.
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