Mostly, all the smartphone users out there, love to use Facebook Messenger on their Android or iOS mobile phones. Therefore, if you’re having issues with your Facebook Messenger then relax, it is just not you. But, despite this popularity, the Messenger app also like any other sturdy app, gives in to various types of issues. Users have taken to Twitter to share their frustration with memes and posts.Developed by social media giant “ Facebook” initially as its chatting feature- Facebook Messenger is an instant messenger application for mobile phones that allows users to exchange text and voice messages along with photos, videos, and GIFs with your contacts including friends and family.Īnd, definitely, when it comes to online instant messaging, Facebook Messenger emerges as one of the most popular platforms to-date. As mentioned, there has been no official communication from Meta on the current outage. Given the fact that both Instagram and Facebook Messenger are owned by Meta (formerly known as Facebook), it could be possible that the messaging issue on both Instagram and Facebook Messenger should be resolved at the same time. It should be noted that so far, the issue appears to be only restricted to the platforms' messaging features, as all the other features of the apps seem to be working fine, ABP Live could verify independently. Facebook Messenger, on the other hand, also showed signs of outage late on Tuesday.

At the time of writing, Downdetector shows 1,150 reports on the Instagram outage. While the outage reports dipped early morning on July 6, at around 3:17am, they peaked again at around 10:17am. On July 5, Downdetector showed a peak in Instagram outage reports from users, with over 1,280 users flagging issues with the photo- and video-sharing service at around 11:17pm. There has been no official communication from Meta regarding the recent outage as of yet. Several users have taken to Twitter to share their frustration in trying to send DMs to their contacts on both platforms.

As per website services status tracker Downdetector, Instagram is showing heavy outages, starting from around 8pm on July 5, continuing to Wednesday morning. Instagram and Facebook Messenger appear to be down for several users, who are experiencing trouble while sending messages on both the Meta-owned platforms.

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