WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook servers crash worldwide; Company confirms outage

In a massive development, several users on Monday evening complained that servers of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are down. Users complained about not being able to connect to servers meaning that y were not able to send or receive messages to ir contacts on each of se platforms.

Or Facebook-owned services including its own site, Instagram and Messenger are all experiencing this issue. Users worldwide took to ir Twitter handles to share ir views on this issue. According to Downdetector, outages appear to have started around 11:40 am ET/9:10 pm IST. Downdetector logged tens of thousands of reports for each of services.

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram down

According to 9to5Mac, outage is also affecting platforms and services that use Facebook login. Niantic, creator of Pokemon GO, says that it is "looking into reports of errors associated with Facebook login, and will update here once we have more information."

9to5Mac also reported that users were being greeted with error messages such as: “Sorry, something went wrong,” “5xx Server Error,” and more.

Here are some netizen reactions on se apps' servers being crashed.

WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram issue statement

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

Facebook’s Andy Stone in a tweet said that "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."  

Meanwhile, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong claimed that Facebook’s internal Workplace site and associated services for employees are also suffering from an outage.

India has one of highest user bases of Facebook as well as its or platforms. According to Statista, re are over 340 million Facebook users in India. 

Earlier in July this year, various online platforms in country, including Zomato and Paytm, faced temporary disruption in services due to a global outage at internet infrastructure company Akamai Technologies. In a tweet around 10 PM IST on July 22, Akamai said it was experiencing a service disruption. It said it was actively investigating issue, and clarified that this was not result of a cyberattack on its platform.

In a later update at 10.42 PM IST, Akamai said it has implemented a fix for issue, and based on current observations, service is resuming normal operations.

(With inputs from agencies)