The three Facebook-owned apps are currently experiencing a mass outage, with messages sending intermittently at best across the platforms, and feeds failing to refresh or register notifications.
According to online outage tracker Down Detector, thousands of complaints came in regarding a crash just after 10.00am this morning, December 10.
With regards to Facebook, the main problems appear to be concerning its Messenger app. For many users, messages aren’t fully sending, often taking ages to appear as received on the other end. Occasionally, messages will appear to send back-and-forth as normal, before resorting to an outage.
Others have experienced problems using Facebook and Instagram, however it doesn’t appear to be as widespread the outages plaguing Messenger.
It’s also affecting the Workplace app, an accompaniment to Messenger often used by companies, forcing employees to find alternative methods of communication. Curiously, WhatsApp – which is also owned by Facebook – appears to be working fine.
