“Number Of Issues” – Facebook, Instagram Suffer Outages 

Downdector reports issues and outages with Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger. Problems started to develop around 1300-1330ET. 

“There are a number of issues currently affecting Facebook products, including gaming streams,” the company’s Facebook Gaming Twitter account tweeted. “Multiple teams are working on it, and we’ll update you when we can.”

There are a number of issues currently affecting Facebook products, including gaming streams. Multiple teams are working on it, and we’ll update you when we can.

— Facebook Gaming (@FacebookGaming) March 19, 2021

 Facebook users report issues and outages across various top metros across the US. 

Instagram’s issues and outages appear centric to the Northeast. 

According to CNBC, “Users who visited the web version of Instagram were greeted with a notice that said “5xx Server Error.””

Twitter users complained about the outages:

everyone on twitter while instagram and whatsapp are down #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/fBozo5eOn6

— ClassyCancelo (@ClassyCancelo) March 19, 2021

well damn, facebook, whatsapp and instagram down, @YourAnonCentral is that you?

— Jilly (@jillivanilli) March 19, 2021

For those having trouble with WhatsApp, Signal is better. #WhatsAppDown #FacebookDown

— Chloe Chamberlain (@ChloeJaneC) March 19, 2021