One possible explanation, therefore, is that a new Messenger build is being rolled out and causing issues for certain devices and platforms. Investigating the matter, members of the Trusted Reviews team confirmed they were experiencing problems with Messenger – though some also appear to be unaffected.

Image Credit: OpenStreet Map ( via Down Detector) Popular borkage monitoring tool Down Detector also appears to confirm that Facebook Messenger is experiencing problems – and that the issue is very much a global one. Subsequently, people began to look for reasons behind the apparent outage, with one school of thought holding that it could be due to an ongoing Messenger update. Predictably, some of the first reports began to surface on Twitter:įacebook is DOWN, Messenger is DOWN #facebookdown #messengerdown Tell twitter because facebook won't work!

News that Facebook Messenger – and possibly Facebook as a whole – was down took the internet world by storm today. Here’s all the latest news and updates, plus information on how to check if Facebook isn’t working. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to break the company up.Facebook Messenger went down on Tuesday December 5. And it prompted calls from legislators like Rep. While the outage was frustrating for daily users of Instagram and Facebook, it was far more problematic for the millions of people who use WhatsApp as a primary communication tool. Four hours later, Schroepfer tweeted, “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Meanwhile, the company offered no explanations.

Shortly after the outage occurred, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company was working to restore access to its apps.

Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, nodded to the broad extent of the outage, tweeting that it 'does feel like a snow day.' Others reported that the badges they use to enter Facebook buildings had stopped working. A number of employees told BuzzFeed News that they could not receive emails from outside addresses. Inside Facebook, the outage wreaked havoc across several crucial internal systems.

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