Facebook and other services owned by Facebook down

 


Today (4th October 2021) Facebook and other services owned by Facebook including WhatsApp as well as Messenger are currently down. 


This was Tweeted by Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO):

"*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible."


https://twitter.com/schrep/status/1445114730151043073


His Tweet is available to read here: https://bit.ly/3uF1YK4
Also, if, you would like to follow him for future updates from his Twitter account: https://bit.ly/2ZWDKzP

I would recommend checking each apps official Twitter accounts for Tweets:


This is one from Facebook's App Twitter: 



 
This is the source for the above Tweet: https://bit.ly/2ZN7EpY

Here is a link to the Facebook App official Twitter:  https://bit.ly/3laI6eN

The official WhatsApp account tweeted: 

"We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!"



Here is a link to the above Tweet: https://bit.ly/3Dd0Al6


Here is a link to the source of the above tweet: https://bit.ly/3uErIX3

The issues will be resolved with time. 

For the latest information please visit the official Twitter accounts of these platforms or any other official account not being effected for the latest updates. 

Have a good day and week. 

Kind regards, 

David Mc Donald, BSc(Hons)
MSc in Marketing Student 
Ulster University 





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