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Updated On Friday, shortly after 1700 UTC, users of [1]Facebook and its [2]WhatApp and [3]Instagram subsidiaries began reporting difficulties connecting to the respective services.

According to Downdetector.com, outage reports jumped from a typical baseline of around a dozen or two to over 3,500 for Facebook, over 26,000 for WhatsApp, and over 124,000 for Instagram around this time period.

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Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though the antisocial network's Facebook Gaming Twitter account acknowledged the issue.

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"There are a number of issues currently affecting Facebook products, including gaming streams," the biz [7]said . "Multiple teams are working on it, and we'll update you when we can."

The situation appears already to be improving. The Instagram website, which briefly returned a server error message, now loads properly.

The connectivity problems at Facebook and its other properties coincide with what appear to be similar slowdowns affecting [8]AT&T , [9]T-Mobile , and [10]Verizon , all of which show elevated reports of trouble on Downdetector.com during the same time period.

Below is a map of breakdowns right now [11]collected by Cisco's Thousand Eyes:

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It may be that there's an underlying internet networking problem. Thousand Eyes highlights a significant spike in activity over the past hour or two. ®

Updated to add at 1940 UTC

“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services,” a Facebook spokesperson said in an email to The Register . “We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

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The spokesperson declined to explain what happened: “We don’t have any additional details to share,” they said.

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[1] https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

[2] https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/

[3] https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/

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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/15/microsoft_azure_outage/

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[7] https://twitter.com/FacebookGaming/status/1372969710514364418?s=20

[8] https://downdetector.com/status/att/

[9] https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/

[10] https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/

[11] https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

[12] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/03/19/cisco_thousand_eyes.jpg

[13] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/networks&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YFUtC5my1qZXJGoKnwWLkAAAAAg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0

[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/