

“If your game isn’t running as usual please note that there’s been an issue with Facebook login servers and the moment this gets fixed all will be back to normal,” puzzle game app Match Masters said on its Twitter account. Several users using their Facebook credentials to log in to third-party apps such as Pokemon Go and Match Masters were also facing issues. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 35,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 9,800 users.įacebook has experienced similar widespread outages with its suite of apps this year in March and July. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users. Facebook offered sincere apologies Monday afternoon as a sweeping outage of its site and various other properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, stretched for more than six. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Facebook October 4, 2021įacebook shares fell 5.5% in afternoon trading on Monday, inching towards its worst day in nearly a year.ĭowndetector, which only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed there were more than 50,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. Although a rare phenomenon, such an outage has had a huge impact on the site’s users, which include businesses.We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.

This is a rare blackout for Facebook, which is the world’s largest social media network and currently dominates the industry. There’s no word yet from Facebook about what may be causing the problem or when those sites, including Messenger and WhatsApp, will be operational again, but we will update with more information when it’s available. Users can load games they already have installed and the browser works, but social features or installing new games does not. The problem also appears to be affecting its virtual reality arm, Oculus. Currently, users impacted by the outage cannot send and receive any messages, nor can they post or view new content. On Instagram and Whatsapp, users were able to load their old feeds and messages, but no new content was available. Those hoping to log into their Facebook accounts simply received an error page stating that their browser could not connect to the social media site, which hosts nearly three billion active users.
