Tech Giant Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have gone down in several parts of the world, many users reported on Twitter that their social media apps are not working. All these apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure.
Facebook have gone down
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have gone down
In several parts of the world, users reported on Twitter that their social media apps WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook are not working. All these apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure.
"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," Facebook shared a message on Twitter.
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.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
Thanks for your patience!
According to NDTV Facebook said on a message that, Facebook said sorry for the inconvenience "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can."
The message suggested a Domain Name System (DNS) error. DNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.
Also, The Verge reported that "While it’s unclear exactly why the platforms are unreachable for so many people, their DNS records show that, like last week’s Slack outage, the problem is DNS (it’s always DNS). Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht notes that Facebook’s border gateway protocol routes — BGP helps networks pick the best path to deliver internet traffic — have been “withdrawn from the internet.”
