tech2 News StaffMar 14, 2019 10:35:03 IST
UPDATE: After 10 long hours of outage, Instagram is now back up and running!
Anddddd... we're back. pic.twitter.com/5E8UdlcsPJ
— Instagram (@instagram) March 14, 2019
In what seems to be the longest ever outage for Facebook and its services, for close to 10 hours now (and counting), Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook.com, and even Oculus servers seem to be down for many users globally. Reportedly, affected users are facing issues sending messages on Messenger, many have complained about being unable to post to the feed on all Facebook products, and accessing other features on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users have said that they are also unable to login to apps like Tinder and Spotify via Facebook.
Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram. Reuters
Instagram, Facebook and Oculus have acknowledged the issue and seem to be working on a fix "ASAP".
So what do we do while we wait for the fix to be out? We take to Twitter to complain and crack jokes about it!
Instagram after the servers go back up #InstagramBlackout2019 pic.twitter.com/g6tIu3hA4l
— Kittyvilla (@SugarSugaKitty) March 13, 2019
Meanwhile in Facebook headquarters...#Facebookdown pic.twitter.com/BxZNPG87Eb
— dr manhattan 🐱 (@al1encr) March 14, 2019
#instagramdow #FacebookDown
*Instagram and Facebook are currently not working*Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube: pic.twitter.com/bKhS7H8zVa
— ~~ (@Jinsouls8inch) March 14, 2019
Everybody: Instagram where u at??
Instagram Headquarters:#FacebookDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/216tXt1ioy— barr0n🇬🇺 (@thatspapib) March 14, 2019
me: pls god help me focus and finish studying
me: pic.twitter.com/yPYIgOEbqj
— 🍓 (@nurcavus_) March 13, 2019
#InstagramBlackout2019
Me: Well if I power my phone off and turn it back on it’ll work
Instagram: pic.twitter.com/5gLHk90UQx— localthotexterminator (@THTEXTRMNATR) March 13, 2019
Me seeing Instagram is still broken after checking for the 75th time#insagramdown #InstagramBlackout2019 pic.twitter.com/jgAJK4HZd6
— miahthecloutgod✨’ (@miahthecloutgod) March 14, 2019
Me: *opens and closes instagram to see if it'll work again*
Facebook and Instagam:#FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/mCwzh6y2SZ— iStealUrCandyXO (@iStealUrCandyXO) March 14, 2019
Me when I can't use Facebook. #FacebookDown pic.twitter.com/xTh05rrG9F
— 富有。 (@fuyuchan2998) March 14, 2019
This is Twitter while the rest of the social media apps are suffering #FacebookDown #instadown pic.twitter.com/ZvHzDiJgnr
— Jinius (@JINius_1) March 14, 2019
The issue seems to be more prominent in Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, Brazil, and a few more regions. In India particularly, according to Down Detector, only some users in Mumbai, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Delhi seem to be affected by the outage. Let us know in the comments below if you have been affected by the outage as well, and what you did to deal with it.
