WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram brief global outage: Here's what caused it

Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook suffered a major outage on Friday night, but the services resumed after some time.

Many WhatsApp users reported inability to send and receive messages, while Instagram too was down during the period. Independent tracking portal Downdetector showed a spike in the outage reported by users of both WhatsApp and Instagram.

Citing technical glitch a Facebook spokesperson said, “A technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services. We resolved this issue for everyone, and we apologize for any inconvenience."


"Thanks for your patience, that was a long 45 minutes but we are back!" WhatsApp posted on Twitter.