Facebook Inc's suite of apps, including popular photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp, were down for tens of thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the services. However, the error message on Facebook's webpage suggested a Domain Name System (DNS) error.
DNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.
Downdetector, 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. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users.
Meanwhile, the social-media giant's instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 22,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 3,000 users.
WhatsApp was also trending on Twitter Inc, with more than 850,000 tweets.
"We're aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment," the messaging platform's official Twitter handle said https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1445060216161116168. "We're working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible."
Facebook did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for a comment.
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Post time 5-10-2021 01:20 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Korg nk kena aja mak ayah install Telegram,bip ke apa..jgn bergantung sgt apps yg org slalu pakai.takut kelam kabut dibuatnya parent korg bila jadi cmni
Author|Post time 5-10-2021 01:26 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
batmana replied at 5-10-2021 01:20 AM
Korg nk kena aja mak ayah install Telegram,bip ke apa..jgn bergantung sgt apps yg org slalu pakai.ta ...
Moh kita download app China cam WeChat. Kalo betoi omputih nak pelingkopkan internet (our internet, elites ade internet depe sendiri) ape bekap plan SKMM? Ade ke tarak???
Post time 5-10-2021 01:29 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
ina_na replied at 5-10-2021 01:11 AM
Esok kn p keluarkan duit la mcm ni..Naya la kalo btl2 crash
Ini planned cyber pandemic. Menuju food shortage, ADA org tepek billboard dataran merdeka pun ada bagi warning simpan food for one week, isiminyak kereta penuh.
ya memang kena ada sikit cash kat tangan
Author|Post time 5-10-2021 01:36 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Edited by tumpanglalu74 at 5-10-2021 01:37 AM
gue replied at 5-10-2021 01:29 AM
Ini planned cyber pandemic. Menuju food shortage, ADA org tepek billboard dataran merdeka pun ada ...
Ye, heboh kat UK & LA backlog of cargo ships. Becoz of shortage of truck drivers yang tibe2 pupus.. Barang berlonggok ateh kapei tak naik ke darat. Supermarket dah kosong rak..