Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook have crashed for users worldwide

By Asianet Newsable EnglishFirst Published Oct 4, 2021, 9:48 PM IST
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Users across the world on Monday reported outage of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook services.

Users across the world on Monday reported outage of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook services.

There has been no update from Facebook with regard to the outage. However, Mark Zuckerberg's firm did acknowledge that something had gone wrong and that they were trying to fix it. 

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According to Down Detector, the outage happened around 9 pm IST.

WhatsApp, meanwhile, said that it was aware that users had been experiencing issues with the service at the moment. 

We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience!

— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp)

The platform said that efforts were on to get things back to normal.

The outage saw many users rush to micro-blogging site Twitter for updates and to post memes to express their anguish at not being able to access the social platforms.

Me turning off my phone for the 5th time not knowing that whatsapp instagram and facebook are down pic.twitter.com/6Wu3yVNdH2

— Iamdepression🤡 (@helloimstressed)

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Instagram down. WhatsApp down. Facebook down.

Twitter right now: pic.twitter.com/8dTjlSfzzH

— B/R Football (@brfootball)

 

Me after realising that instagram and Whatsapp are down. pic.twitter.com/Y47bhJiDOo

— Shashank Dubey (@shashankd96)

 



Mark Zuckerberg's server these days pic.twitter.com/qu2nXxAsZU

— Tweetera (@DoctorrSayss)

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