{"id":138928,"date":"2021-10-04T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=138928"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:31:31","slug":"facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-all-go-down-in-major-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-all-go-down-in-major-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Instagram And Whatsapp All Go Down In Major Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage.<\/p>

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The three apps \u2013 which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure \u2013\u00a0all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.<\/p>

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The company is often cryptic about the causes of any issues, and does not tend to explain them even after they are fixed. In 2019, for instance, it suffered its biggest outage in years \u2013\u00a0and said only that it had \u201ctriggered an issue\u201d during \u201croutine maintenance operations\u201d.<\/p>

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In\u00a0a leaked transcript published in\u00a0The Verge<\/em>\u00a0in 2019<\/a>, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg note that such outages are a \u201cbig deal\u201d. Any problems can often lead people to start using competitors instead, and noted that it can take \u201cmonths\u201d to win back trust and get people back on Facebook\u2019s platforms \u2013\u00a0if they come back at all.<\/p>\n

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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps \u2013 which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure \u2013\u00a0all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. 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