{"id":78339,"date":"2015-01-27T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=78339"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:10:27","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-are-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/78339\/facebook-and-instagram-are-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram are down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook experienced downtime from shortly after 08:00 on Tuesday 27 January, for which the cause remains unknown. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, also experienced downtime.<\/p>\n<p>Many Facebook users complained about the downtime on platforms like Twitter, using the hashtag #facebookdown.<\/p>\n<p>Engadget reported that other services were also being affected, including AIM, Tinder and Hipchat.<\/p>\n<p>According to DownDetector, which detects when services go down or have outages, Facebook was \u201chaving issues since 8:18 AM\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram tweeted from its official account, saying it was aware of the problem, describing it as an &#8220;outage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The outage is affecting users across the world, including the USA, Asia, Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook cracks down on hoax posts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77825\/facebook-cracks-down-on-hoax-posts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook cracks down on hoax posts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook adding $200 billion to global economy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77755\/facebook-worth-200-billion-to-global-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook adding $200 billion to global economy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Facebook is hiring in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77717\/facebook-is-hiring-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook is hiring in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been experiencing downtime since early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,2282],"class_list":["post-78339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-facebook","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78355,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78339\/revisions\/78355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}