Facebook and Instagram are down across much of the United States and Canada, with scattered outages across the rest of the world, according to DownDetector.
Perhaps the social network just wants you to be a bit more social today.
In real life, at least.
A screenshot from DownDetector.com showing where Facebook is having outages.
As usual, when Facebook is down, people go to Twitter to post:
Facebook and Instagram are down? BUT HOW WILL I TELL PEOPLE I AM THANKFUL FOR THEM??
Instagram has responded, telling followers on Twitter that the company is “aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps, including Instagram,” and promising to “get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Facebook’s Twitter account, on the other hand, is silent. And, according to its developer page, platform status is healthy:
Facebook's developer platform status page claims the platform is "healthy."
That may be true for the developer side of Facebook’s tools, but the platform is essentially unusable right now on the user side for me, near Vancouver Canada. And Down Detector says it’s down across much of the northeastern United States and the Pacific Northwest, with additional issues in California, Texas, and Florida.
Plus, Uptime.com is reporting more Facebook connection problems.
Interestingly, the outage is not confined to just Facebook and Instagram, as Instagram’s Twitter message indicates above. WhatsApp reported problems are spiking as well, indicating that Facebook’s infrastructure for many, if not all of its owned apps, is very integrated.
WhatsApp is having connection issues now too
With no word on when the issues will be fixed, people are going to need to find creative ways to spend the day: talking to friends, spending time with family, and eating turkey (or tofu).
Or cracking jokes:
Spending time with family ... or Pennywise. Posted on Twitter by @ItsAllens.
