Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook down globally, users upset

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook down globally, users upset

Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook came to a standstill on Monday night. Due to this, the users had to face a lot of trouble.

Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook came to a standstill in different parts of the world on Monday. Due to this, the users had to face a lot of trouble. This information was given in various reports on Monday evening. The message on the Facebook website read, 'Sorry, something has gone wrong. We are working on it and will fix it as soon as possible (Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can). 

Facebook tweeted, "We know that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused to you.

At the same time, Instagram has also issued a similar message from its official handle. It said, 'It's a little tough time for Instagram and its users right now and you may be having problems using it. we are working on it! #instagramdown.'

Users posted messages on Twitter stating that they were unable to access these popular social networking and communication platforms around 9 pm Indian time. These three social media platforms owned by Facebook are very popular in India for messaging, photo sharing and social networking. 

The portal showed that there were over 20,000 incidents of people having problems with Facebook and Instagram.

Meanwhile, social-media giant instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for around 3,000 users.

All three Facebook properties are market leaders in India in their categories of instant messaging, photo sharing and social networking.

Facebook and WhatsApp return to work after a sudden worldwide outage, and the Pentagon is studying the existence of a security threat.

Facebook and WhatsApp returned to work gradually and faltering after hours during which millions of users of social media and e-commerce platforms in the world faced a disruption on the Internet.

And Facebook announced - in a statement - the return of its services and applications via the Internet, while the New York Times quoted a Facebook spokesperson as saying that the company’s services are slowly returning and it will take some time, as the Facebook engineering department indicated to the return of the service to our applications. gradually.

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that Facebook has returned to work in the United States, and Instagram is working intermittently, while WhatsApp stops working again.

Hours ago, the Facebook company website was disrupted, in addition to the Instagram and WhatsApp applications, as well as the Google and Amazon sites, while the US Department of Defense said that it was studying the possibility of a security threat against the background of what was happening to social media.

And the “Down detector ” website - which monitors Internet malfunctions - indicated that the services of the three social networks were interrupted in densely populated areas - including Washington and Paris - and the reporting of the defect began around 15:45 GMT. The same site also referred to reports of a malfunction in the "Tik Tok" application.

Facebook users in areas that experienced the outage found a message indicating that there was a failure in the domain name system, and that work was being done to resolve it.

At the same time, the social media giant's WhatsApp platform also crashed for many users, and Messenger services stopped.

"We understand that some are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, we apologize for any inconvenience," Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said on Twitter.

"Instagram and its friends are having a hard time right now, and you may have trouble using it. Bear with us, we're working on it," the Instagram account wrote on Twitter.

As for the official WhatsApp account, he wrote on Twitter, "We understand that some people are having problems using WhatsApp now. We are working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."

Downdetector reported reports of crashes on Google, Amazon and Twitter sites . Mobile phone malfunctions have also been reported in the United States.

Immediately, Facebook shares fell by 5.3%, and the price per share reached 325 dollars, compared to its price in the beginning of trading, which was 335 dollars in the early hours of this morning.

Reputational risk

Sources to the island stated that an internal memo to Facebook says that a technical team is trying to fix the defect manually, and the New York Times also quoted an internal memo to Facebook saying that the interruption of its services poses a great risk to its reputation and to people.

The New York Times added that a small team from Facebook is trying to manually reprogram the company's servers, and the New York Times reporter stated that the failure of the electronic cards of Facebook employees prevented them from entering the company's headquarters to assess the causes of the malfunction.

While the Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying that the outage of Facebook services led to malfunctions in the company's internal communication and employee work applications.

Nothing works on the company's premises but email, a WhatsApp official told NBC.

For its part, the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) said that it is studying the possibility of a security threat against the background of what is happening to social media.

And the newspaper “Bloomberg” (Bloomberg) revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost $7 billion within hours due to the disruption of Facebook applications. Social media shares also fell sharply on Wall Street.