
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to break the company up. And it prompted calls from legislators like Rep. While the outage was frustrating for daily users of Instagram and Facebook, it was far more problematic for the millions of people who use WhatsApp as a primary communication tool.
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Four hours later, Schroepfer tweeted, “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Meanwhile, the company offered no explanations. Shortly after the outage occurred, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company was working to restore access to its apps. Of these issues, 79 were related to Facebooks website, 12. Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, nodded to the broad extent of the outage, tweeting that it "does feel like a snow day." Downdetector had received more than 86,000 user reports of Facebook outages since 11:25 a.m. Others reported that the badges they use to enter Facebook buildings had stopped working. A number of employees told BuzzFeed News that they could not receive emails from outside addresses. We recently reported that a new leak suggested that users would be able to transfer WhatsApp chats between Android and iPhone, although it is equally unclear when that feature will arrive.Inside Facebook, the outage wreaked havoc across several crucial internal systems. It seems unlikely that Facebook will roll out true cross-platform chatting between WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger users in the near future, while the company's work towards bringing cross-device messaging on multiple devices is also currently ongoing. Read more: How to use Vanish Mode on Instagram and Facebook Messenger The outage also prevented anyone trying to use 'Log in with Facebook' from accessing third-party sites. The chat interface looks exactly like Facebook and sports a small WhatsApp logo on the Chat Bubbles interface to denote that the chat is with a WhatsApp user. Pacific time, the social network's namesake app, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Oculus Facebook's virtual reality service seemed to disappear. On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours.

What Paluzzi found was that while you can't chat with another WhatsApp user at the moment, Facebook already appears to have the interface ready to allow someone who uses Messenger but doesn't have WhatsAppm to talk to someone who only uses the latter on their phone.
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Here's what a chat between a WhatsApp user and a Facebook Messenger user could look like, according to Paluzzi.
