Instagram, Facebook & WhatsApp outage restored

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Thousands were reporting issues with using Facebook and the company’s other products: Instagram and WhatsApp.

The reports spiked on Friday morning, according to DownDetector. People outside of the U.S. were commenting about the outages as well. By 12:30 p.m., outage reports plateaued.

Facebook’s Gaming account on Twitter said they restored service at 11:57 a.m.

We've restored service. If you continue to have issues going live, or see issues on a stream, please either contact support ( https://t.co/dj6GEjPbBp ) or report directly from the stream. Thanks for your patience! https://t.co/czPg4W5Zqu

— Facebook Gaming (@FacebookGaming) March 19, 2021

Instagram

• Over 125,000 reports on DownDetector by 10:30 a.m.
• Most reported problem is with the news feed
• Outage hot spots: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco

WhatsApp

• Over 23,000 reports on DownDetector by 10:30 a.m.
• Most reported problem is with the connection
• Outage hot spots: New York, Toronto

Facebook

• Over 2,000 reports on DownDetector by 10:30 a.m.
• Most reported problem is a ‘total blackout’
• Outage hot spots: San Francisco, New York, Toronto

Facebook Messenger

• Over 5,000 reports on DownDetector by 10:30 a.m.
• Most reported problem is connection to server
• Outage hot spots: San Francisco, D.C., New York, Chicago, Vancouver