Instagram and Facebook down for thousands of people
Is your #instagramdown? We know some people are having issues right now. We’re working on it and hope to have everything running smoothly as soon as possible.
— Instagram (@instagram) April 8, 2021
Facebook Inc’s platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Reports by users showed more than 112,000 issues on Facebook’s website, while 101,000 Instagram users and 516 Whatsapp users reported problems as of 6 pm ET.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nobody:
Me: Refreshing my Facebook app every two seconds thinking that did something.😭💀 #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/ZZsngNVRRu
— Life With Marshy (@ReallyMasharah) April 8, 2021
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.
(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)
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