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Facebook Messenger And Instagram Have Stopped Working Worldwide

Facebook Messenger And Instagram Have Stopped Working Worldwide

This follows a Facebook and Instagram outage last month

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Facebook Messenger and Instagram have gone down for thousands of users across the globe.

The outage is worldwide, impacting several countries including Mexico, Australia and many in Europe, according to the Daily Mail.

DownDetector has displayed the various outages that have currently been reported in the thousands.

DownDetector

It is still not clear why the outages have occurred and Meta (Facebook and Instagram's parent company) is yet to comment on the issue.

Meta told LADbible: "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Messenger, Workplace Chat and Instagram DMs.

"We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience."

A similar incident happened last month (4 October) where Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down, with users reporting widespread issues with the services.

Usman Muzaffar, SVP of engineering at CloudFare, told Daily Mail at the time: "Humans access information online through domain names, like facebook.com and DNS converts it into numbers, called an IP address, computers use.

"From what we understand of the actual issue - it is a globalized BGP configuration issue. In our experience, these usually are mistakes, not attacks.

"Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.

"Today, the directions for how to get to Facebook's DNS server's addresses weren't available (and seem to still be unavailable).

"Without being able to contact the DNS servers, visitors trying to reach a Facebook property, like facebook.com, will not get an answer and so the page won't load."

Alamy

Following the latest outage, users have once again taken to Twitter to blow off some steam.

One wrote: "Is Facebook down again? Messages arent seeing [sic]."

Another added: "Instagram, Facebook and Messenger are all DOWN. Apps are not working properly.... FYI."

Someone else joked: "Twitter is the king forever.

"There goes Instagram and Facebook. Down again."




Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: Instagram, meta, Facebook