WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook suffered an outage worldwide on Monday night. A lot of users were unable to send or receive messages. Some users also reported that they failed to even log in to WhatsApp Web. Twitter, on the other hand, got flooded with some hilarious memes.
Everything we know about the WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook global outage
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have all gone down in global outages hitting the social networks.
All three apps are owned by Facebook, and as a result, use the same infrastructure and all stopped functioning properly around 18:00 CEST (17:00 BST, and 12:00 ET).
WhatsApp was the first to fail – initially the web version, then the phone app, before Facebook and Instagram followed suit, leaving users unable to view their messages or feeds on the three social networks.
The outage wasn’t concentrated on one region either, with reports of issues throughout the USA, UK, and Europe, as well as Latin America.
As is somewhat customary during such outages, users thought that the internet itself was down, or there was an issue with devices. However, other social networks such as Twitter, TikTok, and Telegram were operating as normal.
The last time the three Facebook-owned networks went down was on March 19, 2021, and on that occasion it took a couple of hours for the sites to regain proper functionality.
How do you know if your WhatsApp is down?
The easiest way to verify if WhatsApp is down for you is to try sending a message via the app. You will notice that there aren’t the usual ticks to say the message is sent, but instead, the clock symbol to indicate the message is pending delivery.
Why did WhatsApp go down?
As yet, WhatsApp haven’t issued any updates via their Twitter account.
What happened to Facebook and Instagram?
Like WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram haven’t been able to update the feeds on their applications. Though they have issued a message via Twitter.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook tweeted. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
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