Facebook and its owned applications WhatsApp and Instagram are reporting loading issues as several users worldwide complained.
Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram.
“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” a message on the Facebook website said when trying to load.
Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 3,000 users.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” a Facebook company spokesperson said.
WhatsApp too reached out to its users via Twitter to acknowledge the outage:
Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. It is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, though one on a global scale is rare.
Meanwhile, Twitter was bombarded with several memes on Facebook and its owned social media platforms’ outage. Take a look:
Facebook’s annual revenue has more than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Meanwhile, the company’s market value has soared from USD 375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly USD 1 trillion now.
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