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Facebook and Instagram went offline on Thursday afternoon.
The Instagram outage started and within two minutes Facebook was following, around 5:30 pm ET, with several thousand people reporting outages in DownDetector.
User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 5:31 PM EDT. https://t.co/8wgYQLKxCu RT if you’re also having problems #Facebookdown
– Downdetector (@downdetector) April 8, 2021
User reports indicate Instagram is having problems since 5:28 PM EDT. https://t.co/lXKoHvktSg RT if you’re also having problems #Instagramdown
– Downdetector (@downdetector) April 8, 2021
The outage appeared to affect Facebook’s internal websites as well, as first noted in a tweet by developer Jane Wong, which The Verge reported. Even the Facebook blackout panel seemed to have problems.
Facebook’s internal website is also down again: S https://t.co/0ZZFhth1Kl pic.twitter.com/WAAHkKPXQb
– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 8, 2021
Shortly after 6 p.m. ET, Facebook and Instagram seemed to make a comeback for most users, but the Facebook status page never changed to reflect the outage as it occurred.
Nobody:
Me: Refreshing my Facebook app every two seconds thinking that did something. #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/ZZsngNVRRu
– Life With Marshy (@Marshy_Baby) April 8, 2021
And, apparently, the interruption of service of Facebook and Instagram was global, because there are reports from Australia:
#BREAKING: Facebook and Instagram have come back online after going down momentarily this morning. # 9News pic.twitter.com/ugGAfmwCPq
– 9News Australia (@ 9NewsAUS) April 8, 2021
And memes abound on Twitter:
People coming to Twitter to check if FaceBook is really down😂#Facebook #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/V2tD3DYp8q
– Gerald💯 (@ Gerald35276451) April 8, 2021
Instagram: down
Facebook: down
WhatsApp: downEveryone on Twitter: pic.twitter.com/wrNMUwTwsj
– B / R Football (@brfootball) April 8, 2021