

Until now, the test – which began in May this year – was being carried out in Canada. Instagram announced that it’s expanding the ongoing experiment to hide ‘likes’ count to more countries, including Brazil, Japan, Ireland, Australia, Italy, and New Zealand. This outage comes hot on the heels of the Facebook-owned company implementing a major change to the service. We are looking for more info on the matter, and will update the story as and when we have something newsworthy. Meanwhile, complaints continue to pour in. It’s currently not known whether it’s a small glitch or the service has suffered a major outage this time. Yes, after being down for a couple of times very recently, we’re again seeing reports from many users that the photo-focused social media service is not working again. Looks like Instagram is experiencing a sort of outage, yet again. Original story (from July 19, 2019) follows: Users on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger were unable to receive new messages or check the status of previously sent messages.New updates are being added at the bottom….



While Instagram and WhatsApp users were simply unable to refresh their applications for the most recent content, visitors to encountered an error message stating that the site could not be reached. The outage could affect a larger number of people. Meanwhile, the social media giant's instant messaging platform WhatsApp was unavailable to over 14,000 users, while Messenger was unavailable to nearly 3,000.ĭowndetector only monitors outages by compiling status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July. It stopped working in many parts of India and around the world, preventing users from sending messages or posting anything on Instagram.ĭowndetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. DNS allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. WhatsApp and Instagram services have been facing global outage for sometime now.
