14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook’s services are once again down, including here not only the social network, but also Instagram and WhatsApp.
At the time of writing this article, attempts to connect to Facebook return a simple error message revealing that “something went wrong.” The official Instagram website fails with “5xx Server Error.”
Furthermore, the WhatsApp mobile clients on both Android and iOS can no longer send and receive messages, with the app displaying a “Connecting…” message on launch.
WhatsApp Web also appears to be impacted by the outage, and the service can no longer connect to mobile devices.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down in Europe
According to DownDetector, Facebook is down mostly for users in Europe, and several countries like Hungary, Serbia, and Romania are apparently the most affected. The social network appears to be working fine elsewhere.
In the case of Instagram, the problem seems to be more widespread. Romania, Hungary, and Moldavia once again appear to be impacted by the outage, but the aforementioned service also indicates sporadic connectivity issues in other countries like the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and China. Part of the US was also hit by Instagram connectivity problems.
WhatsApp is down mostly for users in Europe, but this time the regions that experience connectivity problems are Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Italy, and the UK.
Facebook hasn’t released a statement on what’s happening with its services, and most likely, the company would restore them shortly. Obviously, no information on the cause of the outage has been provided either.
In the meantime, there’s not much you can do than wait for Facebook to provide us with some status updates. Nevertheless, the social network rarely discloses the cause of service outages, unless it’s something truly critical, so it remains to be seen how fast this new blunder is resolved this time.