Update 17:45PM October 4, 2021 : Users are reporting that Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are now finally showing up on their devices.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down in a major outage. This outage was noticed shortly after 11AM Central US Time and is causing panic among users with no resolution to the problem in sight. All attempts to post on any of these social media websites have been met with failure and several news outlets have reported the outage.
All Facebook Owned Products
The Facebook owned products – WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger – all stopped working on Monday morning. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly after 11am Central US time.
Since the outage, Facebook has acknowledged that there is an issue with their services by posting to their developer page with the following message: “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.”