Latest reports has it that users of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp in most part of the world have found it difficult accessing apps and websites belonging to the services Monday evening.
It is said that error reporting Downdetector showed the services stopped working shortly before 8pm, with over 20,000 reports of issues with Facebook and Instagram.
Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users.
Messages on Instagram and Whatsapp would not send, and new content would not load. Facebook’s main webpage returned a message saying the site could not be reached.
Facebook has not yet responded to a request for comment, but Whatsapp tweeted that it was “aware that some people are experiencing issues”.
The company is notoriously coy about the causes of its service outages, which affect three of the world’s most-used apps.
Shares in the social media giant plummeted earlier on Sunday after a whistleblower revealed herself for the first time and a cussed the company of putting profit over the safety of its users.
Facebook’s shares fell by as much as 4.5 per cent on Monday morning in New York, hitting $327.66, their lowest level since June 21.
The revelations have ignited a firestorm for Facebook in Washington as politicians accuse the company of covering up internal research about its negative effects.
The users of dozens of different smartphone models will be unable to use WhatsApp from November 1, when the Facebook-owned platform will stop working on phone on phones that run on systems older than Android OS 4.1, Apple’s iOS 10 and KaiOS 2.5.1, according to its FAQ section.
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