Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down globally on Monday for several hours. At about 15:30hrs GMT, Facebook and its sister apps started displaying error messages and later went down totally.
The outage lasted for close to five hours. Billions of people who use these apps for their businesses, chat with family and friends, shop online and others were unable to access them. The helpless users took to twitter to share their frustrations.
Facebook itself informed its users about the outage on their Twitter page
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience”.
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@facebook) October 4, 2021
Instagram also tweeted this to its users
“Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown”
Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021
WhatsApp also tweeted this to its users:
“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!”
Celebrities, companies and others poured their frustrations on their twitter pages as follows;
Socials down? Crazy lol
— MeekMill (@MeekMill) October 4, 2021
Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down on Monday for many users. The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. https://t.co/G1fnRCHK9C
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 4, 2021
People are running from WhatsApp and Facebook to twitter 😂😂
The service is down
— nana aba (@thenanaaba) October 4, 2021
BREAKING: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are DOWN https://t.co/swOWQGxPkF pic.twitter.com/7lTOcB11fH
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) October 4, 2021
UPDATE: Facebook , Insta, WhatsApp Outage
• 4 hours, ongoing
• NYT: unlikely a hack; FB employees unable to enter building in a.m
• Servers likely behind problem: CTO
• Facebook stocks 📉
• Zuckerberg lost $7 billion: Bloomberg
• Global loss > $160 million/hr: @netblocks— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) October 4, 2021
Some people also make fun of the situation by tweeting funny videos, comments and memes.
Am working on your WhatsApp ok🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/lZkMNtgNHx
— SHATTA WALE (@shattawalegh) October 4, 2021
Here we go again. Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook are down. pic.twitter.com/4IRlftkqZW
— ayie.25 (@darth_irza) October 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/teletubby__/status/1445128744843235342?s=20
Mark Zuckerberg trying to fix IG, WhatsApp and Facebook. pic.twitter.com/YtVSaTCLEC
— Choir 〽️aster (@gyae_me) October 4, 2021
After several hours, Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp are back online. They all took to their twitter pages to inform their users about the restoration of the system.
We’re coming back online! Thank you all for your patience and we sincerely apologize to everyone affected by the outage. https://t.co/0ivNTHJ9wd
— Facebook (@facebook) October 4, 2021
We’re now back and running at 100%.
💚 Thank you to everyone around the world today for your patience while our teams worked diligently to restore WhatsApp. We truly appreciate you and continue to be humbled by how much people and organizations rely on our app every day. 💚
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 5, 2021
Instagram is slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait! https://t.co/O6II13DrMy
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 4, 2021
On the other hand, Mark Zuckerberg who owns these companies is said to have lost $7 billion as a result of the outage.
Instagram and facebook going down cost Mark Zuckerberg $7 billion dollars today.
And it did not inconvenience him financially in any way.
In case you're curious about unrigging the US tax code.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 4, 2021
He took to his Facebook page and apologized to users who were affected by the outage.
