Instagram and Facebook Messenger experienced connection issues again yesterday. However, after a while, they were resolved. A spokesperson for Meta (formerly Facebook) confirmed the problems in a statement yesterday .
“Earlier today, some people may have experienced issues accessing Workplace Chat, Instagram DMs , and Messenger. We fixed the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected. We know that people and businesses depend on our services around the world, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.“.
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What happened?
Yesterday, several users began reporting on social media that they were having connection issues with Instagram's messaging features, Messenger, and other Facebook-owned services (Meta).
DownDetector also reported issues on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger .
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As they usually do, users were quick to share their displeasure on Twitter.
“I assumed I was having trouble with Messenger and Instagram until I searched for ‘Messenger down’ on Twitter,” one user wrote on Twitter. Recently, Facebook experienced another major outage. Users joked about the new problems, posting various memes.
Facebook quickly confirmed that Messenger was, indeed, down. “No, your wifi is not down. We’re working to get things back to normal as soon as possible. #messengerdown,” the official Messenger account tweeted on Wednesday.
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This latest apparent outage of Instagram DMs and Messenger follows a massive outage that took place in October that resulted in all of Facebook and its services being down for many hours.
These days, however, outages are the least of Facebook-Meta's problems. The company has come under fire after former employee Frances Haugen revealed details about Instagram's negative effects on teenagers. Haugen's leaks have triggered a series of investigations into Facebook.
Source: Gizmodo
