{"id":496721,"date":"2023-06-16T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=496721"},"modified":"2023-06-16T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:00:18","slug":"major-problems-with-facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/496721-major-problems-with-facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram.html","title":{"rendered":"Major problems with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users are currently unable to send media like images or voice messages using Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Down Detector shows a large spike in outage reports since 21:00 for the three platforms, which are all owned by Meta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-496723\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK--800x186.png\" alt=\"OUTAGE FACEBOOK\" width=\"800\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK--800x186.png 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK--600x140.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK--768x179.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/OUTAGE-FACEBOOK-.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company is yet to provide a statement on the outage.<\/p>\n<p>However, the issue appears to be global, as users from across the world have taken to platforms like Twitter to complain about the outage.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband tested sending and receiving images on the platform to confirm the problem.<\/p>\n<p>We were met with a notification that our message could not be sent, as indicated below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-496725\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage-637x533.png\" alt=\"Test Outage\" width=\"637\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage-637x533.png 637w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage-478x400.png 478w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage-768x643.png 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Test-Outage.png 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">WhatsApp confirms issue<\/h3>\n<p>The official Twitter account for WhatsApp <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatsApp\/status\/1669796460257222665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>has confirmed<\/strong><\/a> that there are problems with the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re aware some of you might be experiencing issues sending media on WhatsApp at the moment,&#8221; said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re working to get things up and running at 100% again. We\u2019ll keep you updated, in the meantime thanks for your patience&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/496655-telkom-is-in-deep-trouble.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom is in deep trouble<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users are currently unable to send images or voice messages using Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":466301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[161,10424,2594],"class_list":["post-496721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496727,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496721\/revisions\/496727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}