ISLAMABAD (MEDIA REPORT)
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all experiencing issues this morning for users worldwide. Facebook and Instagram were both inaccessible, with news feeds refusing to refresh and the main Facebook.com domain unavailable for more than two hours. WhatsApp messages were also unable to be sent or received, and users of Facebook’s main services (Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp) headed to Twitter to share that they were having issues. Messenger, Facebook’s chat service, was also down for more than two hours.
#FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter globally.
The outages appear to have started at around 3:30PM Pakistan Local Time. “Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble connecting to the family of apps,” says a Facebook spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “The issue has since been resolved; we’re sorry for any inconvenience.” Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all started to come back online at around 6PM Pakistan Time this evening.
There are more than 1.52 billion daily active Facebook users, according to the social media network’s website.
Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.