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[flagged] Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally (facebook.com)
45 points by m0ck on April 14, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 32 comments


I like how this is just a link to facebook.com --- the proof is in the pudding? Here's a link to downdetector though: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook


Just noticed this, wondering what is the cause behind a downage this serious - they rely on being constantly up and have huge investments in infrastructure to avoid this. Possible attack or a large change gone wrong?


Reminds me of the YouTube outage a few months ago. You never notice that these sites are never down until they’re down


Why are people upvoting this? It’s just a link to facebook.com and it’s not even true. All 3 services are working for me in Germany, so it’s definitely not “global”. A quick check on isitdownrighrnow.com tells me facebook and instagram are up and running.


"Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down for users around the world" says The Verge, which seems more accurate: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/14/18310069/facebook-instagr...

It's interesting to note that the same thing happened exactly one month ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/14/faceboo..., time to check the crontab?


Sure, "works for me" == everybody is lying. Great logic there

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/


I never said that.


It is partially down globally, even in Germany, just that not everyone is affected.

https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/map/

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/772045/facebook...


Based in Austria, and definitely unable to access facebook and whatsapp. ...so it's probably a partial outage of sorts, but still a big deal.


Not having issues with Whatsapp here in France


Having problems getting FB messenger, Facebook.com and Whatsapp to load/connect/deliver messages from the east coast of the US using both my mobile data plan and home internet connection


Nope, in EU its working fine


They're down here in Spain at least.


Down for approaching 30mins in Switzerland (this is when my WhatsApp desktop client started showing connection errors)


Seems to work from Germany.


Working in the UK.


Not for me it isn't.


Down in Glasgow, Scotland, UK for ~ 30 mins


Down in Italy


Nope, having some problems


Down in Canada (Quebec).


Working in Australia


Not in Austria atm


Down in Singapore


Down in Slovakia


Down in India


Down in Italy


WhatsApp is Working being much more distributed.


Ghana. Whatsapp is fine but Facebook is down.


Down for me here in the UK.


Works fine in UK over EE and Virgin


WhatsApp is down in Prague




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