Published 23:42 IST, March 19th 2021
Whatsapp and Instagram not working across the world; reason yet to be identified
Instagram showed a 5xx Server error when users tried to refresh. Meanwhile, WhatsApp users also reported that the app is down. See reactions —
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WhatsApp Messenger along with Instagram, a photo and video-sharing social networking service, and Facebook Messenger — all owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, Inc faced a global outage on Friday. Users across the globe were not able to send messages or open the website.
Instagram showed a 5xx Server error when users tried to refresh. Meanwhile, WhatsApp users also reported that the app is down. The official account of both portals is yet to issue a statement on the same.
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Twitter, on the other hand, was flooded with memes where hashtags like #WhatsAppDown, #InstagramDown within minutes started trending with over 57,000 tweets from all across the World. Moreover, Signal and Telegram, other popular cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service started trending on Twitter.
23:37 IST, March 19th 2021