WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down LIVE Updates: Mark Zuckerberg speaks as services return

hello literally everyone — Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021 Hey bestie — Bratz (@Bratz) October 4, 2021 *unmutes mic* Hey everyone. — Microsoft Teams (@MicrosoftTeams) October 4, 2021 You were made for this moment — Oscar Mayer (@oscarmayer) October 4, 2021 👋 pic.twitter.com/QMLILFPZkz — Peppa Pig Official (@peppapig) October 4, 2021 Hiya babes! — Adele (@Adele) October 4, 2021 "We’re starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again, " tweets WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/D9huQvcKlT — ANI (@ANI) October 4, 2021 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has broken silence about all his three platforms— Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram's lasting global outage as he said on October 5 that the services "are coming back online now". Furthermore, the CEO added, "Sorry for the disruption today -- I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about." Facebook on October 5 said in a tweet that its services were now coming back online as the team worked to fix the issue. "We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us," the social media giant stated after a global outage of nearly 6 hours. To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us. — Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021 After almost a six-hour outage due to DNS routing problems, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp were back online for some users. Facebook platforms experienced a lengthy outage that disrupted the Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and Oculus VR services late on Monday night. The apps are now finally back online after being down for more than five hours. Although, the company stated on October 5 that a complex DNS issue such as the one that hit the firm could take up to several hours for all the platforms to work properly on every network. A Facebook spokesman told the local US outlet that it may take longer for all the services to stabilize for world’s largest social media with billions of users globally. Facebook’s chief technology officer (CTO) tweeted that the team is working “as fast as possible” to restore the services amid the global blackout for all of Facebook’s platforms. “Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook-powered services right now,” Mike Schroepfer said. Furthermore, Facebook’s CTO informed that the company was experiencing networking issues and the teams were trying to debug it as quickly as possible. *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible — Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021 Facebook and Instagram employees are 'unable to do any work' as the social media giant's internal tools at the workplace have suffered a massive outage, as well, reports on October 5 have confirmed. Facebook encountered a glitch across all of its platforms— Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and Facebook Messenger causing the online services to halt for its users worldwide late Monday night. The websites and the messaging app returned an error at around 11:45 am ET, unable to load for the users. now, reports have emerged, stating that the employees at Facebook have been struggling to access office systems, while many others could not even enter the building or access their work premises. Facebook employees are communicating via text message and Outlook email, Associated Press reported, adding that the situation was pretty chaotic at the three buildings. CEO of Instagram has said on October 5 that it feels like a 'snow day' for staff, as there's a worldwide outage of all the three major Facebook platforms and employees are having a "bit of a tumbleweed moment." "It's mayhem over here, all internal systems are down too," Philip Crowther, a reporter for the Associated Press, reported on Twitter. Source at Facebook: "it's mayhem over here, all internal systems are down too." Tells me employees are communicating amongst each other by text and by Outlook email. — Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) October 4, 2021 Facebook employees have been locked out of the offices as their turnstile badges did not work following the mass outage of service worldwide. Insider confirmed that the employees were shut out of the conference rooms as they were denied access early on Tuesday, meanwhile NBC learnt that the situation was "really bad" and the communication and internal tools were apparently inaccessible. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday took to its official Twitter handle to use Facebook’s global outage scenario to propagate the COVID-19 mask advisory to the citizens, worldwide. The health agency shared an informative video, tweeting: Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are down, but “never let your mask down.” It further went on to add, “wear a mask properly”. #InstagramDown, #FacebookDown, #WhatsAppDown but NEVER let your mask down.#WearAMask. Properly.pic.twitter.com/3ARvucECfg — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) October 4, 2021 The global health agency advised the world’s citizens to wear a mask or a protective covering to avoid contracting the novel COVID-19 disease. “A properly fitted mask reduces your risk of COVID-19,” WHO said. It warned, that If a mask is below the nose or mouth or has gaps on the sides, chances are that the virus might get in. WHO also advised the citizens to keep practicing the physical distancing, to wash hands from time to time, and use the elbow to cough and sneeze to stop the spread. With Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, and Messenger hit by more than 3 hours of lasting outages on Monday night and no restoration of services in sight up until midnight, October 5, netizens took to Twitter to share their woes and bombard the platform with a slew of hilarious memes. Pouring light humour about the major outages that involved the global shutdown of the most widely used websites Instagram, Facebook, and the messaging service Whatsapp, netizens dropped memes depicting the Facebook team "fixing" the internet problems. Others hashtagged the global disruption as #dramaalert. "Looks like it’s a DNS problem," one wrote sharing the meme portraying the watch appearing to wait for the services' restoration. Others joked, that they could "now go to the Facebook HQ LIVE" to get the latest update as the outage on all three platforms had cut the communication. Meanwhile, several others joked about the fact that Facebook employees "were unable to enter buildings to begin assessing the extent of the outage because their badges were not working." Some poured memes about Twitter that had all three platforms—Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram onboard to convey LIVE updates to the users. We can now go live to Facebook HQ for the latest update on the outage. pic.twitter.com/WMGy3B4DD2 — Matthew Williams (@yorkie201180) October 4, 2021 pic.twitter.com/LkjP6Cr8ba — Lijevo Vinstri (@CaroG87) October 4, 2021 “Facebook , Instagram & WhatsApp is down due to major outage” Twitter: pic.twitter.com/lm509l2pQL — mufasa (@mufasatweetss) October 4, 2021 Mark Zuckerberg watching his team fix WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook outage!#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/e0NdakfJIn — Vishal Verma (@VishalVerma_9) October 4, 2021 pic.twitter.com/0iB6Q3sdc2 — Pooja (@Pooja51677409) October 4, 2021 The Internet is OFFLINE! Major outages today Twitter Instagram Facebook What’s app & more #DramaAlert pic.twitter.com/walalwZssf — KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) October 4, 2021 Twitter watching WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram outage: pic.twitter.com/g6mhIyhCni — Yamaan Shahid  (@realYamaan) October 4, 2021 Widespread outage still affecting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp & more.. pic.twitter.com/6oXFC8Zl3J — JustFreshKicks (@JustFreshKicks) October 4, 2021 User unable to use WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram amid massive outage #WhatsAppDown #FacebookDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/99A2gWfGBc — Deepak bisht (@Deepak_Bisht13) October 4, 2021 Twitter watches an outage of Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. 😂😂😂#outage pic.twitter.com/1uLiE3SU7U — Abdurahman Jama (@zayidabas) October 4, 2021 People who use Twitter, over Facebook and Instagram right now... #Outage pic.twitter.com/o95geeGtU4 — Dr Samuel J. Mitchell 🌋 (@smitchell_sci) October 4, 2021 As the social media giant Facebook and its shared platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger encountered an outage worldwide, the Facebook site on October 4 suggested a 'Domain Name System' (DNS) error on its main page. Facebook Inc's social media site wasn't accessible for hundreds of thousands of users globally due to service disruptions suddenly, which was later confirmed by an outage tracking website Downdetector.com. An error message on the website read: "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can." More than 50,000 incidences of outages were reported by Facebook users, globally, as per the Downdetector.com. Nearly 850,000 tweets about the WhatsApp service hindrance were reported on Twitter, as the messaging app started trending on Twitter In late on Monday. [Credit: Downdetector.com] [Credit: Downdetector.com] Late Monday night, the social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook as well as Messenger was hit with a suspected global outage as the firm’s entire network of services were disrupted, and abruptly went offline. The issue with Facebook was experienced worldwide. Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht was quoted as saying that the social media giant had encountered a technical glitch in its border gateway protocol routes known as the BGP that routes the path to deliver internet traffic. Facebook took to its official Twitter handle to inform that it was aware of the global outage and was working to get the services up and running as quickly as possible. While Facebook could not load for the users worldwide, Instagram on October 4 flashed the 5xx Server Error message. The outage also hit the virtual reality arm, Oculus. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience. — Facebook App (@facebookapp) October 4, 2021 We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience! — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021 The disruption in the Facebook website, as well as WhatsApp, was first noted at around 9 PM, India time, as the page for the social media site could not load for users globally. Users poured in the complaints about the outage on micro-blogging site Twitter and tagged Facebook. Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown — Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021

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WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram down LIVE Updates: Mark Zuckerberg speaks as services return

Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp on October 4 encountered a global outage causing inconvenience to the users worldwide as the platforms went dark.