

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and files.The service also supports voice and video calling. Nearly 89 percent of users reported that they were having problems with sending and receiving messages. More than 3,200 users have reported issues with the messaging platform, according to Down Detector. Facebook Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application. Facebook Messenger is down due to a technical issue. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible". Users are reporting problems related to: messaging, connection and app crashing. Schroepfer tweeted: "*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. That's per who knows a few things about BGP/DNS."Īs the widespread outage rumbled on Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer issued a statement on Twitter apologising for the service disruption - and saying teams for the Menlo Park-based firm are working as fast as possible to rectify the problem. "To be more precise (and Geek Factor 5) the BGP routes serving Facebook's authoritative DNS were withdrawn, rendering all Facebook domains inaccessible. "Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works & all your internal FB-based tools fail?


It's believed the lengthy Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram outage is related to a DNS issue.Ĭybercrime journalist Brian Krebs on Twitter posted: "Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find or got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables.
