Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are offline. The websites and apps for all of the services were responding with server errors. Reports on DownDetector.com showed the outages appear to be widespread, but it’s unclear if it impacts all users or just some locations. It’s not currently known what’s causing the outage.
All three platforms stopped working shortly before noon ET.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” a spokesperson said. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
In 2019, a similar outage lasted about an hour. Facebook said that outage was caused by a technical issue. Major websites can also sometimes go down if content delivery networks, or CDNs, go offline. That happened in June, when one such CDN, Fastly, was down due to technical issues. That caused major websites including Amazon, Reddit and The New York Times to go down.
Source: cnbc
In other news – Omuhle Gela appointed Finery Gin brand ambassador
Omuhle Gela kicked off the new month, October, in an exciting manner, as she was announced as the brand ambassador of The Finery Gin.
New month, New beginnings. So excited to announce that I’ve joined the @thefinerygin SA team as their new Brand ambassador. Learn more
