It has happened again. After a time without crashes, WhatsApp has again suffered a crash that is leaving users worldwide unable to send messages. The application opens correctly, but the messages remain with the clock icon indicating they are being sent without reaching the server. And not only that. Many users (including us) report failures when opening WhatsApp Web, such as that this platform does not open correctly in the browser and instead the error appears: 5xx Server Error. But not only that. Facebook and Instagram are also down this afternoon, with problems loading the publications. We tell you everything we know about the fall of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.
It has happened to you, almost certainly. You try to send a WhatsApp message in the last few minutes, think it’s an Internet connection problem, check the WiFi on your computer if you’re using WhatsApp Web, or turn off and on the WiFi on your mobile… Until you discover that it’s not you, It’s WhatsApp. WhatsApp’s fall is brutal, as indicated by more than 14,000 reports of WhatsApp problems have been received on a website like Downdetector. And that’s not all. On Twitter, we already have more than half a million tweets (and counting) in the last few minutes talking about these same problems.
The fall of WhatsApp is one of the big ones. According to our experience and the comments collected on Twitter, the app can be opened normally, but when sending a message, it gets stuck on the icon with the clock, which means it is not uploaded to the WhatsApp servers.
As this Twitter user comments, it has happened to many of us (including myself). The first impulse is usually to believe that it is a mobile or WiFi problem. The problem is global and affects both WhatsApp and its WhatsApp Web platform. It is not only that the page does not load correctly, but when trying to do so, the error 5xx Server Error appears. In the time it takes me to write this article, it has already gone from 14,000 reports in Downdetector to 30,000, which gives a measure of the severity of the crash (usually, a big crash has 1,000 or 2,000 reports at its peaks). This fall is not reflected in the official WhatsApp channels, although they have not talked about these events for a long time.
INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK ALSO DOWN
But they say that misfortunes never come alone, and the Facebook guys must have dropped their worldwide network of servers because the connection problems also spread to their other two great services: Facebook and Instagram. In the case of Instagram, we see that when you open the app, only the posts you were already seeing before the crash occurred will be loaded. Still, when you want to update the application, a message will appear saying, “You can’t update the news.” And so constantly. In Downdetector, the reports at this time on Instagram are above 10,000.
So much for the fall of Instagram. In the case of Facebook, directly when you open the page in the browser, you will see the following:
I mean, something went wrong. We are working on it and will fix it as soon as possible. Being a fall of this level, there is little you can do now. In the case of WhatsApp, it is always good to have an alternative to Telegram to maintain contact with users who also use it or use the mobile for its original purpose, making and receiving calls. So, it’s time to wait for the guys from Facebook to fix this problem affecting users worldwide. We will see if later they give explanations about what has happened.
Facebook has shared a post on Twitter that acknowledges the problems of “some people” (long live the euphemism) and confirms that it is working to restore normalcy as soon as possible.
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