Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger were all experiencing outages that plagued users worldwide.
The outages hit around 5pm ET Thursday and are impacting millions of users, with some experiencing total blackouts.
This was the second all of the Facebook-owned services have crashed in the past month – the last hit March 19.
Some users are able to access their accounts, but could not refresh News Feed on the social media apps and desktop sites.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger were all experiencing outages that plagued users worldwide.
Facebook was the first to go down, followed Instagram and then Messenger joined the group.
However, WhatsApp was experiencing its own issues earlier in the day, which had been fixed, but has now joined the team of fallen apps.
The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has yet to address the issues or announce what sparked the massive outage.
DownDetector, an online site that monitors outages, showed users in New York, Texas, California and Arizona are experiencing issues.
DownDetector, an online site that monitors outages, showed users in New York, Texas, California and Arizona are experiencing issues
The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has yet to address the issues or announce what sparked the massive outage
Issues were also reported in the UK, Australia, China and other countries around the globe.
Some users reported seeing error messages when using the services, while others are seeing posts from hours ago.
Those trying to get to Facebook were met with an error message that reads ‘Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.’
At peaks of the crashes, around 5:57pm ET, Facebook had more than 121,000 issue reports and Instagram hit more than 42,000, while Messenger had some 4,900 and WhatsApp showed over 1,500 – all of which are just in the US alone.
Those trying to get to Facebook were met with an error message that reads ‘Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can’
When one social media platform goes down, in Thursday’s case four, users flock to another to share their frustrations and also see if they might be the only ones experiencing a problem – and the platform of choice is typically Twitter
Donie O’Sullivan suggested the crash may stem from people working home and spending more time scrolling the sites than doing actual work
When one social media platform goes down, in Thursday’s case four, users flock to another to share their frustrations and also see if they might be the only ones experiencing a problem – and the platform of choice is typically Twitter.
Donie O’Sullivan suggested the crash may stem from people working home and spending more time scrolling the sites than doing actual work.
However, another users pointed at the fact that many people have criticized Twitter, yet were still using it to share their thoughts about Facebook and the other services being down.
However, another users pointed at the fact that many people have criticized Twitter, yet were still using it to share their thoughts about Facebook and the other services being down
All of the Facebook-owned platforms were recently down on March 19 for about one hour – and it also hit users across the world.
Users visiting Instagram online were shown a simple error message saying ‘5xx Server Error’, with no other information provided.
Some Facebook users were able to sign in to the app, although 63 percent of reports on downdetector.com suggested there was a ‘total blackout’.