Disconnected Worldwide: Facebook and Instagram Abandoned, and WhatsApp with Problems

A Wednesday of terror for communications and the use of social networks, WhatsApp adds to the failures of Facebook and Instagram: Users around the world have reported problems with the email service.

Unlike Facebook, platform on which users can not enter, WhatsApp works with limitations. Nobody has reported problems when sending simple text, but few people can send photos or videos, although some are lucky. The same goes for voice messages: they do not go out and they are not received either.

The Down Detector portal has updated the mail service failure map, which occurs in the same places that have problems with Instagram and Facebook.

The Web DownDetector, which records service issues on Web sites and applications of all kinds encountered by users worldwide, indicates that 33% of people are having trouble connecting to Facebook, while 32% said that the platform has undergone a "total collapse".

With regard to Instagram, 46% of those affected have detected problems with the news feed, while 33% can not connect. On their side, 54% of WhatsApp's problems are related to the sending and receiving of messages, while 37% of those concerned have declared to register. connectivity issues.

Facebook's response … on Twitter

Faced with this global failure, Mark Zuckerberg's social network had to resort to Twitter to explain his awareness of the problems and that they worked to solve them.

In addition, they ruled that it was not a hack and that they will resolve the situation "as soon as possible".