Massive Outage Hits Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp

<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve been trying to view your Facebook or Instagram feed&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ve been out of luck most of the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest Internet services has been down for over three hours&period; Facebook&comma; which also owns Instagram and Whatsapp&comma; has seen its websites and apps go down since around 8&colon;37 am Pacific time likely due to a domain name server &lpar;DNS&rpar; issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nearly half of the world&&num;8217&semi;s population uses either Facebook&comma; Instagram or Whatsapp each day&period; The company reported 2&period;76 billion users in June that used its services each day with 1&period;91 billion users on Facebook alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ironically&comma; Facebook posted the following message on its official Twitter page&comma; which was not having access issues today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products&period; We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible&comma; and we apologize for any inconvenience&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Facebook stock is down over 5&percnt; on the day on the news with many other tech stocks also in the red for the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The outage comes just a day after a former Facebook project manager appeared on CBS&&num;8217&semi; 60 Minutes and said she was the whistleblower that leaked internal company documents to the media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;