WhatsApp and Instagram services down due to technical snag: Facebook Inc’s platforms including online messaging service WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram were down for thousands of users according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
People coming on twitter to check whether whatsapp is down #WhatsAppDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/7y7Bch5sNP
— Udit🪖 (@udit0201) March 19, 2021
Downdetector showed there were more than 1.2 million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram, while over 23,000 users posted about issues with WhatsApp on the website.
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Today's picture of Twitter's Headquarter#whatsappdown #Instagramdown pic.twitter.com/9P9KE2iaFk
— Sammed Girmal (@sam__girmal___) March 19, 2021
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.