This morning Facebook and its apps and services, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and more, went down for the count. The outage lasted most of the workday and many memes went viral about the incident.
Facebook this afternoon has released a statement, apologizing for the downtime. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” said the social network.
“We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us,” said Facebook.
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
As for Instagram, they just said it is “slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait!”.
Apologies to everyone who hasn’t been able to use WhatsApp today. We’re starting to slowly and carefully get WhatsApp working again.
Thank you so much for your patience. We will continue to keep you updated when we have more information to share.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
Here’s an apparent explanation of what happened to Facebook today:
Hallo, please find the unroll here: a bunch of friends have texted me asking for a basic explanation as… https://t.co/kVYnyZvEAC Talk to you soon. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) October 4, 2021
With Facebook’s apps and services down for the day, it’s likely productivity may have increased for both those at work and studying for school. How did you deal with today’s Facebook outages? Did you manage to survive?
