Later the company’s CTO Mike Schroepfer said: “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.” Twitter broke records for the number of visitors it suddenly received.īy 21h30 in South Africa, the Top 5 Twitter trends were: 1 – WhatsApp, 2 – #facebookdown, 3 – Mark Zuckerberg, 4 – #DeleteFacebook, 5 – iMessageĪccording to Downdetector’s news at 20h00, almost 80,000 users reported WhatsApp being down, over 120,000 reported Facebook outages and at least 80,000 reported Instagram is down.įacebook announced (in a tweet of course): “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Twitter humorously tweeted: “hello literally everyone”… as people around the globe turned to the social media site for information on what was happening. In South Africa #WhatsApp is still trending (at midnight) at number one on social media platform Twitter (which is not owned by Facebook, and which has been working!). It is! At midnight (Monday night SA time), while Facebook was back up, WhatsApp was still not working, and nor was Instagram (which showed a “Oops, an error occurred” message). One of the most popular questions on Google in SA right now is: “Is WhatsApp down in South African now?” Is WhatsApp Down in South Africa Right Now?
“Phew, no, it’s the whole world.” Others thought it was their wifi or their iPhone that was the problem, before realising this was one of the biggest crashes in Facebook history. “And I thought something was wrong with my phone,” said Capetonian Mike Roberts. (See the memes at the bottom of the page.)
Earlier on Monday, Facebook, FB messenger, WhatsApp (the messaging app) and Instagram – which are all owned by Facebook – crashed around the world, and were down in several regions worldwide, including South Africa for at least SIX HOURS. Facebook is back!!! Although many features aren’t working properly yet.
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