Instagram also appeared to suffer an outage in some regions, with sporadicWhatsAppoutages reported too.
And I find I can log into Facebook just fine.
For a full breakdown of the Facebook outage as it happened, read on.
Taking a look at Downdetector and Facebook has just had a huge outage spike.
Apparently WhatsApp users are reporting outages too, but my WhatsApp app is working fine.
it’s hard to tell, but it would appear that these outages are partially region-specific.
WhatsApp and Instagram are fine for me, but Facebook isn’t letting me get in.
However, others are saying they can’t get into Instagram and Downdetector is flagging WhatsApp outages.
So it looks like Meta’s main social web link is bearing the brunt of the outage.
We are working on this now."
We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services.
We are working on this now.March 5, 2024
Can you tell us what happened?
Looks like things ain’t rosy on Meta’s tech side.
Also for our American readers, don’t put this down to Super Tuesday conspiracy theories.
I know it’s tempting but no, just no.
One of the great things about such outages is they spawn a load of quick and dirty memes.
Well there’s a myriad of reasons.
It could be a problem with a clutch of servers or a Facebook data center could have gone down.
So something wrong on that side could be the culprit.
So what do you do now that Facebook is down?
The phrase that comes to mind rhymes with ‘go hit’.
Facebook is just down.
Despite the outages, Instagram is still up and running for me.
There we’ve got a load of cool videos of the latest and most interesting consumer tech.
And here’s a video of me making a fool out of myself on it…
So maybe some code gremlin or misconfigured cloud server has had some cascade effect after the change was implemented.
Of course, this is just speculation on my part.
Yeah that’s not aged well.
Yeah, ok, that’s not great but I haven’t had enough coffee today.
Oh…Oh…OH!
It looks like I can now login to Facebook again.
That would suggest this outage has been fixed.
My colleagues report they can now login to Facebook andDowndetectorhas seen a big drop off in reports of outages.
Looks like the day’s drama could be over folks.
Or to verify you’re doing better than that person who made your life hell at school.
Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services.
I’ve been your host Roland Moore-Colyer.
And until the next outage I bid you adieu.
