Users of Instagram applications and to a lesser extent WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger could not access these services on Friday around 19:50 GMT, according to reports to the specialist site Downdetector, disruptions confirmed by Facebook.
🔴Facebook, Instagram and Messenger partially stranded, 4 days after Monday’s mega blackout, um (no WhatsApp message for now) In Los Angeles, for now, it seems to be working #facebookdown #instagramdown #Messengerdown #whats pic.twitter.com/gXHmsdA6pr
– Philippe Berry (@ptiberry) October 8, 2021
I confirm: I struggled to post a photo; she was not charging
– Jeremiah 🤓 (@jrmiejak) October 8, 2021
#Facebook and #instagram down again. Cue some idiots phoning the police 🤬. Yes, here in the UK, some actually phoned the police during the last outage 🤔
– DAYS OF HORROR PODCAST ⸸ (@dohpods) October 8, 2021
“We are aware that some people and businesses have difficulty accessing Facebook products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience, ”a company spokesperson said in a message to AFP, a few days after a giant blackout that paralyzed these services for several hours.
As of Monday, all of the group’s services, from WhatsApp to Instagram, Messenger and Oculus, remained inaccessible for nearly seven hours. The outage, Facebook explained the next day, was caused by an error by the group during routine operations.