MONITORING (SW) – Social networking services Facebook and Instagram, and messaging service WhatsApp are all experiencing issues for users worldwide, media report suggest.
Facebook and Instagram are both inaccessible, with news feeds refusing to refresh and the main Facebook.com domain unavailable, while WhatsApp messages aren’t being sent or received, The Verge reportedon Sunday.
According to traffic-monitoring website DownDetector, Facebook was the first to encounter problems at around 3:28pm [PST], followed by Instagram at 3:33pm and WhatsApp at 3:58pm.
Facebook Inc, which owns and operates all three services, has yet to comment on the disruption. The outage appeared to be affecting both websites and apps.
The outage comes exactly a month after Facebook went down for almost a full day across parts of North America and Europe on March 14.
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