He has written about technology and lifestyle. We will update this article as soon as new information is available about the downtime. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger have been down for over 20 minutesĪs one does, people have flocked to Twitter to report their own outages. Exactly, one month ago (4th of October, 2021), Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger were offline for many hours which caused the social giant to lose millions of dollars. Facebook’s main app now has 2,903 outage reports on DownDetector.Īt present, there have been no comments from the Meta-owned platforms on Twitter regarding the outages. UPDATE: As of 2:21 PM EST, Facebook Messenger outage reports have skyrocketed to 11,618. On Instagram, some users can see and refresh their feeds but can’t load Direct Messages (DMs).

Some users are reporting they can’t even load the apps, while others are saying the apps will load but aren’t refreshing. For Instagram, 17,064 have reported outages as of 2:19 PM EST. As of 1:48 PM EST, the services are down.Īccording to Downdetector, nearly 3,000 people have reported the outage on Facebook Messenger.

If you were planning on spending your Sunday scrolling through Instagram feeds and talking to people on Facebook Messenger, then bad news. If you are still having issues, try restarting the apps. Reports on Downdetector are dropping drastically and we were able to use all three platforms without issues. UPDATE 2:34 PM ET: It looks like the services are now up and working again.

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