


“The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many of the internal tools and systems we use in our day-to-day operations, complicating our attempts to quickly diagnose and resolve the problem,” the company said in a blog post the following day. While we wait for an explanation of what’s going on, here’s what Facebook said following the massive outage on 4 October: We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment and will be bringing you all the latest updates as we get them. To The Independent’s live coverage of the latest Facebook outage, which is impacting Meta-owned apps Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. You can follow all the latest updates on the outage right here.

You can also get in touch with us via our Instagram account.More than 100 billion messages are sent across Facebook’s family of apps each day, with Instagram and Messenger sharing the same underlying infrastructure. We're also on Facebook - your must-see news, features, videos and pictures throughout the day from the Irish Daily Mirror, Irish Sunday Mirror and irishmirror.ie. Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.įollow us on Twitter - the official Irish Mirror Twitter account - real news in real time. Worryingly, DownDetector has also issues alerts for Facebook and Instagram - two other Facebook-owned apps.įor the latest news and breaking news visit irishmirror.ie/news. Let me text my friends back!"Īnd one added: "Yeah so Facebook messenger be down or I’m really trippin."

Unsurprisingly, several frustrated users have taken to Twitter to question what's going on. The Mirror has contacted Facebook for comment. While the reason for the issues remains unclear, of those who reported problems, 80% said they weren't receiving messages, while 20% couldn't log-in. Many Irish social media users are experiencing problems with Facebook, Instagram and Messenger this morning.ĭown Detector is showing that all three have seen a surge in issues since 9am.
