John KoetsierAs usual, when Facebook is down, people go to Twitter to post:Facebook and Instagram are down? And, according to its developer page, platform status is healthy:Facebook's developer platform status page claims the platform is "healthy." John KoetsierThat may be true for the developer side of Facebook’s tools, but the platform is essentially unusable right now on the user side for me, near Vancouver Canada. Interestingly, the outage is not confined to just Facebook and Instagram, as Instagram’s Twitter message indicates above. WhatsApp reported problems are spiking as well, indicating that Facebook’s infrastructure for many, if not all of its owned apps, is very integrated.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2019 16:25 UTC