


Recent reports said that WhatsApp was set to stop working on old phones, though those stories themselves were a little misleading.įurthermore, there is no connection between that issue and this Monday's problem, as that won't come into play until November 1. WhatsApp issues unrelated to reports it's set to stop working for some users Due to Facebook's size, though, only someone at Facebook would have been able to stop running the DNS. It remains unclear why or how this has happened. WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram down! The best memes.įacebook's DNS records appear to have been removed from the global routing tables, which effectively means that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp cannot be contacted by users' browsers in order to get onto the sites.Global outage! Six alternatives to WhatsApp.WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook down! What has happened today?.Users reported being unable to access Facebook in California, New York and Europe. It is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, though one on a global scale is rare. The company did not say what might be causing the outage, which began around 11:45 ET. Regarding the internal failures, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, tweeted that it feels like a "snow day." The company said it was aware that "some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app" and it was working on restoring access. Facebook's internal systems used by employees also went down. Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world Monday.
