On Monday evening, users all over the world reported issues with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
Facebook owns all three apps and they all use the same infrastructure.”I apologise for the inconvenience, but something went wrong. Our team is currently working to resolve the problem.” This, according to a Facebook message, is the case.
It appears that there was a DNS error in this case. DNS allows web addresses to direct visitors to specific web pages. In July, a similar outage at Akamai Technologies Inc., a cloud services provider, brought down several websites.
On social media, specifically Twitter, WhatsApp acknowledged the issue. A Facebook spokesperson made the same statement.
Twitter users reported that they couldn’t access the popular social networking and communication platforms due to technical difficulties around 9 p.m. Indian time.
According to downdetector.com, a website that monitors web services, over 50,000 people have reported issues with Facebook and Instagram. There is a possibility that the problem will spread to more people.
Over 22,000 Facebook users were unable to access WhatsApp, the company’s instant messaging platform, and nearly 3,000 Facebook Messenger users were unable to access the service.
With over 850,000 tweets, including banter between the tech companies, WhatsApp was also trending on Twitter Inc. Facebook’s Indian properties, which include instant messaging, photo sharing, and social networking, are all market leaders.
Over 410 million Facebook users and 530 million WhatsApp users make up India’s largest market. In India, Instagram is used by over 210 million people.
Facebook’s apps experienced similar widespread outages in March and July of this year.
A whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after leaking a trove of documents to authorities, alleging that the company knew its products incited hatred and harmed children’s mental health. The outage occurs at the same time as her appearance.
In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” data scientist Frances Haugen, 37, said Facebook was “significantly worse” than any other company she had ever worked for.
