When will Facebook be back up? Millions of users around the world are beginning to ask this question after more than an hour since both social networks went down.
One of the most well-known websites for tracking online service outages, Downdetector, registered a significant increase in reports of problems with Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger starting at 9 a.m.
On Google, searches for terms like “session expired” on Facebook increased exponentially.
So far, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has not provided information on why its social platforms went down.
Users, many of them small businesses and merchants whose sales depend on these social networks, do not have information on when the service of these networks will return.
Around 11 a.m., some users reported that they managed to log in successfully to Facebook.
There is a precedent of a widespread outage of Facebook and Instagram that lasted several hours, which caused Meta’s shares to drop by 4.89%, considered its worst drop since 2020.
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The day Facebook went down for more than 6 hours
On October 4, 2021, Facebook experienced one of its most challenging days. On that date, a widespread outage of Meta was recorded, also affecting Whatsapp. The failures in Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram affected millions of users worldwide, who, when trying to access their networks or apps, encountered messages about a 5xx error.
On that day, Facebook, IG, and Whatsapp were offline for more than six hours due to failures. After which, they began to gradually restore their service.
On that occasion, users trying to access Whatsapp web or Instagram from a computer were met with the 5xx server error message. Meanwhile, navigating on Facebook, a gray screen appeared with the following message:
Sorry, something went wrong.
We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the three platforms were slowly coming back online, but warned that the services would take some time to stabilize, reported The New York Times (NYT) on that October 4.”
