Facebook, Instagram And WhatsApp Experience Widespread Outage

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSnapchat users reported problems accessing the app Wednesday, in what appeared to be an outage affecting multiple regions.User reports of problems with Snapchat started to surge at about 7:15 a.m. ET, according to uptime-monitoring site DownDetector.

Facebook and Instagram users have been unable to access services for the second time in a week.

Facebook bosses have apologised after 'issues' were reported for people accessing the popular social media site.

MENLO PARK, Ca. – A spokesperson for Facebook said that the company is bringing its services back online although there were still some issues with its WhatsApp messaging service. The spokesperson also acknowledged that there will be intermittent problems as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger are coming back up.

out of commission for several hours — but Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t one of them. In fact, on Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” the host admitted she was “thrilled” that it happened.Discussing the outage, the panel of women speculated that it may have been caused by the company itself, in an effort to prove to users how dependent they are on the apps.

Adele, Dolly Parton and Reese Witherspoon were among the stars reacting to widespread outages for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The online giants went offline for some users on Monday, causing chaos for those who rely on the platforms.

Facebook has blamed a “fault configuration change” for leaving 3.5 billion users unable to access the company’s services for nearly six hours last night.The company – which also includes Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram – crashed yesterday afternoon at around 4pm GMT, preventing users across the global from refreshing their feeds or accessing messaging services. It wasn’t until 10pm that services were restored.

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Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon , Tara Reid, Dolly Parton and even Adele. Check out some of the funniest celebrity tweets about the day the #internetShutDown.Dwayne Johnson continues tradition of singing for grandma Grover on her 102nd birthdayArnold Schwarzenegger wishes Joseph Baena, his son with former mistress, a happy 24th birthdayHiya babes!here’s a video of my dog I would have put on Instagram! pic.twitter.com/BhQ0Jv8MIZHi!Everyone showing up to @Twitter today while

In light of whistleblower Frances Haugen’s exposure of internal Facebook actions, some have generated serious callout tweets like the following:with instagram down, influencers are going to have to go door to door making teenage girls feel like shit about themselvesOthers chose to go for the vaccine research and misinformation angles:lot of top tier vaccine scientists going to have a tough time with their independent research now that facebook is downMemes ranging from relating to the situation

later identified as a DNS — or domain name services — issue. However, as of this writing it’s still not known what caused that problem.All three sites went down the morning after former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen came forward as the whistleblower who filed at least eight complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission in September.

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are offline.