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According to reverse.com the social media powerhouses Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all appear to be partially down for some users around the world today (March 14th 2019). While you can open all three (3) platforms and some services appear to have been restored, users are still however, reporting issues with sending messages on Messenger, posting to the feed on all Facebook products, and accessing other features on Facebook.com, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook owned Oculus VR, is experiencing issues related to the outage.
Earlier in the day (March 13th 2019), WhatsApp appeared to be fine for many people, but users in Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, and more note that they first began experiencing issues with sending messages as the afternoon of March 13th (yesterday) went on. DownDetector indicates that those in Brazil were experiencing the most severe outages.
Theverge.com also tested multiple accounts, and found that Messenger couldn’t load at all on desktop, although the mobile app was working. Instagram is reportedly the worst off: for some users, posts aren’t loading, Instagram Stories are down, direct messages and the button to post new content are also not working. Facebook’s ad section was not functioning either, and it led to an internal error when you tried to buy an ad.
About an hour after users first noted the outage, Facebook responded on Twitter. It also noted that “the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.”
According to DownDetector, it looks like the outages are mainly in New England; Texas; Seattle, Washington; parts of Latin America, including Peru; the UK; India; and the Philippines. Users have written in from Canada, Las Vegas, and Turkey to note outages there as well. DownDetector also stated that it has reached out to Facebook and Instagram for more information.
Facebook owned Oculus is also down. One user in California, USA wrote in to reverse.com saying; “Nobody can log in to any multiplayer games purchased through the Oculus store. They also can’t access their Oculus Home environments.” Users also reported being unable to buy games from the Oculus store.
Other users noted that attempting to use Facebook to sign into apps like Tinder or Spotify was not working either. Trying to do so would bring up an error saying ‘this feature is not available right now’. If you were already signed into Spotify, it appears that your login is still valid, but once you sign out, you’ll be unable to get back in.
Users on the continent of Africa, do not appear to be experiencing issues on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other Facebook owned services.
Feel free to let us know if you experience any issues with any of the above mentioned platforms owned by Facebook.
