Facebook and its apps Instagram and Whatsapp are experiencing apparent outages with reports of connection trouble from users in countries around the world.
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The website DownDetector, which shares user-reported issues on websites and other platforms, showed thousands of complaints Friday regarding the Facebook-owned apps around 1:30 p.m. ET.
The vast majority of Instagram users, about 70%, reported issues loading their newsfeed, according to the site. Many Whatsapp messenger users reported connection trouble, along with users of Facebook.
It indicated that Instagram outages were reported in the U.S., and in countries across Europe and in Central and South America.
Independent tracking website DownDetector, which monitors mentions across social media to track when web services are offline, is suggesting that thousands of WhatsApp users are currently experiencing the outage. In fact, at the time of writing, there are some 70,000 complaints that users can’t access the app.
Speaking on Down Detector’s forum page, one user said: “Help I urgently need to send a WhatsApp message regarding some news I received from India, what do I do ??”
Whilst another added: “All three apps are down Facebook insta and WhatsApp must be something up with the servers.”
Users have also flocked to social media to vent their frustrations with one fan saying: “WhatsApp and Instagram are down. So am I.”
Another tweeted: “WhatsApp Down and Instagram cannot refresh feed.”
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