Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Linked In An icon of the Linked In 'in' mark. Facebook An icon of the Facebook 'f' mark. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Meanwhile users worldwide are flooding Twitter to make jokes, and even Google seems to want to join the fun.Ī word of caution - if you own an Oculus Quest, do not restart your device while Facebook is down, as that could lead to losing access to your games, as researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted.Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. As The Verge noted, Dane Knecht, an SVP at Cloudflare, tweeted that Facebook DNS and other services are down.Īll Facebook services are unavailable right now.įacebook has not given any details about the outage at this point, but a Facebook executive did tweet acknowledging the issue, and say that it is looking into the matter. The outage at Facebook has also been an opportunity for competitors, with Signal tweeting that it has seen a huge influx of users, who are not able to send messages using WhatsApp at the moment. It is being speculated that the issue was caused by a DNS problem. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Facebook App October 4, 2021 We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger were all persistently unavailable when Gadgets 360 staff tried to access these apps. It promised that the app will be back online soon, but that was not to be. Facebook services appear to have been down from 9pm on Monday, according to reports on outage tracker Down Detector. All Facebook apps have been inaccessible for several hours, in what is definitely the longest Facebook outage in recent times. The company confirmed this with tweets (since Twitter is the only major social platform working right now) across its various corporate handles, including the Facebook app, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook services WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger were down for several hours on Monday.

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