Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down currently experiencing a global outage for reasons that are best known to only Mark Zuckerburg. Several users have now taken it to Twitter and are of the opinion that maybe the social media giant was the victim of a massive hack attack.
Facebook, Instagram users having issues logging in
According to reports, most Facebook and Instagram users are currently experiencing issues with logging in. While some are greeted with a ‘down for maintenance’ error message, a select few have also encountered the infamous ‘Account Temporarily Unavailable’ message.
“Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. In the meantime, read more about why you’re seeing this message. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site.”
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users who were somehow able to log in their accounts, only managed to gain limited access to the services offered by the trio of services. For instance, Facebook users are currently unable to post and upload status/videos, delete comments, change profile picture, among other things. Whereas WhatsApp and Instagram users are having issues sending voice notes, messages not being sent, uploading new stories and more.
“Something’s gone wrong. We’re working to get it fixed as soon as we can.”
Is Facebook hacked? Why is FB, Instagram and WhatsApp down?
We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.
— Meta (@Meta) March 13, 2019
Even though it has been confirmed that this outage is not caused by a hack or a DDOS attack, tech pundits believe that this might be a case of a classic case of “update gone wrong”. Based on the fact that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users can see posts and statuses before the downtime just fine, an educated guess from our side would be that Facebook somehow “broke” their database and is currently only in “read-only” mode. It remains to be seen what reason does Facebook comes up with in its official press release.
As of writing this, thousands of Tweets have already been made with hashtags like #WhatsAppDow, #FacebookDown and #InstagramDown.
https://twitter.com/AngelOfDeath889/status/1105969278468214784
https://twitter.com/linaalbawaliz/status/1105970988766937089
https://twitter.com/Ben10_Bernard/status/1105970024999763968
https://twitter.com/lindicemile/status/1105971107373477889
Literally anyone // Facebook Whatsapp and Instagram right now#FacebookDown #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/hydPYgS9Sd
— your good friend Sebastián Gutarra (@yungerexabyte) March 13, 2019
I hate this meme but it’s accurate#instagramdown #facebookdown #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/JO2DwaD31W
— ig| taetaemma (@ALLMYLOVE_V) March 13, 2019
Is Instagram down? Instagram Inbox and Login not working
Multiple reports of Instagram inboxes not sending or receiving messages are being posted on Twitter. People are also unable to login to their Instagram accounts and are seeing errors like “we couldn’t connect to Instagram. make sure you’re connected to the internet and try again.”
https://twitter.com/ANIM3_DORK/status/1105972707538206720
How tf Instagram just delete all my messages in my inbox without notifying me? Tf bruh ?
— Lyzzy Stoned 🐐💚 (@ThaGoatIAm) March 13, 2019
One frustrated user @adotKuku wrote: “Its been acting up for at least 3 hours now. What’s going on!! I can’t even see my own inbox ? The worst thing about it you guys have so many technicians and workers at the HQ, why wouldn’t you guys at least try to keep us updated? I’m missing out on business and much more !!”
Its been acting up for at least 3 hours now. What’s going on!! I can’t even see my own inbox 📨 The worst thing about it you guys have so many technicians and workers at the HQ, why wouldn’t you guys at least try to keep us updated? I’m missing out on business and much more !! pic.twitter.com/iu48tr98mw
— Ku (@AdotKuku) March 13, 2019
@KaustubhMangal2 says: “#instagram unable to logging in, showing unknown network error, #Facebook showing two days old feeds #instagramdown #facebookdown”
Is Facebook down? Facebook Web login not working. People are unable to “login with Facebook” on websites
@bird650 wrote: “@WWESuperCard I’m having issues logging into my account on a new phone. The Facebook login continues to be an error, and I’m unable to log in to my old account because of that. Any way to fix this or contact support about the issue? I’d like to get back into my account ASAP ?”
Tara Scott wrote: “@YogaClubBox I’m having issues logging in with my Facebook account. Getting an error message. Please DM if you can help. ?”
Ankush wrote: “@8ballpool I have issue with logging in with my facebook account from today. The error is “This feature is currently unsupported”. Please help as I had made many in game purchases for this and cannot start from bottom once again.”
Is Whatsapp Down? Whatsapp not sending voice messages or Photo Messages
Multiple reports of Whatsapp not sending voice or photo messages are also coming up on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/philosophiers/status/1105978618977636352
Can’t send any voice. What the hell, and all my chats are disappeared because I thought if I deleted it, it will work. 🙃💔
— Meshari Alghamdi 🎓 (@Samha02) March 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/Youngbozo_/status/1105976428816818176
Why is whatsapp being shit. Why can’t I send pics or voice notes. Sort it out @WhatsApp
— zee (@95zmx) March 13, 2019
Users are unable to post to Facebook Pages, Profiles, Walls, Comments, Friend Requests or Groups
Several users are taking to Twitter to express their frustration. Some of the reports are as follows.
Allison wrote on DownDetector.com: “I can’t send friend requests and now it won’t let me log on to Facebook. I also keep getting repeated messenger notifications even though there are no new messages. I’ve received dozens of them but there are actually no new messages!”
Joyce Donald reported on Twitter: “Facebook not working. I was getting “Failed post” when I wanted to comment on someone’s post. Then I signed out thinking if I sign out and sign on again that it would eliminate the problem. Now I am locked out completely and unable to sign on again.”
Brittany Hill reported: “Facebook let me literally send one post about hopefully it’s working now before not letting anything else post. I feel played…”
@fayth43 posted: “More Facebook is not working at all it was hard to log on, pages take ages and many refreshes to load and when they do load I can’t post anything ?♀️”
@lexymay24 mentioned: “@fbsecurity @fb_engineering @fbsecurity Facebook is back working but we still can not post in groups or approve members ?? #facebookdown #facebookoutage @facebook @fbplatform”.
Shane wrote: “Yeah dude. I’m having an issue too. Notifications won’t refresh. And I had a hell of a time logging in with Facebook. Kept getting a “network error” message!”
I thought Facebook was working fine for me, until I tried posting a photo on the official B&T fan page. The text part of the message posts but not the picture.🙄
— Bob Goniea (pronounced Gahn-yay) (@rjgoniea) March 13, 2019
Not sure what’s up, but my Facebook isn’t working. Can’t post or respond, but I’m apparently not in jail?
— Lisa Weihman (@LisaWeihman) March 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/TjMcJr215/status/1105980891548008449
When will the downtime end? When will Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp be fixed?
Unfortunately, the tech giant hasn’t given a timeline as to when can Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users can expect the services to go live as usual. However, for what it is worth, given that the downtime has already been going for 6 hours now, it should be a matter of only an hour or two before Facebook’s hardworking engineers sort this mess out.
If the services are not up by the mentioned ETA, there may be something more to the story than meets the eye, which could point towards a possible hack or security breach.
@instagram team mentioned: “We’re aware of an issue impacting people’s access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.”
We’re aware of an issue impacting people's access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.
— Instagram (@instagram) March 13, 2019
We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.
— Meta (@Meta) March 13, 2019
Facebook is down globally, Whatsapp is down globally, Instagram is down globally, What’s going on!?
Multiple reports are coming in from various countries, hinting that this issue could be far more widespread than made out to be!
@dimjalingga said on Twitter: “mau instagram, facebook, whatsapp error apa engga error tetep sama aja, dia ga bakal bales chatmu wqwq~”
@addictSay said on Twitter: “He salido de mi cuenta de @instagram y ya no me deja entrar por algun error … ?????”
@ro94angel wrote: “#FacebookDown Yo no sabía que las fallas presentadas en esta Red Social,era resultado de una Caida del sistema.”
Meanwhile, some users like @franklycurious are making fun of Facebook’s downtime with remarks like: “I continue to be unable to post anything on @facebook. But the ads are being delivered as well as ever! #FacebookDown”
Django took to Twitter to comment the following: “En la tragedia millenial de hoy: Mucha gente no pudo compartir su vida con otra gente que le vale madres 🙁 #facebookdown”
En la tragedia millenial de hoy:
Mucha gente no pudo compartir su vida con otra gente que le vale madres 🙁 #facebookdown— Beng Impala (@BnjmnJ02) March 14, 2019
