Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger down for some users
Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 2:42 PM
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger have gone down for users across the world.
The three apps – all of which are part of the Facebook company, and share common technology – stopped working on Friday afternoon UK time, the Independent is reporting
It says users saw error alerts when they opened the app and were unable to send or receive messages.
Facebook’s official “platform status” page, which tracks problems for developers, indicated that the platform is “healthy” and that there were no known issues.
Instagram and WhatsApp do not have their own devoted server status pages, though Instagram’s official Twitter account has occasionally posted about major outages.
WhatsApp’s “status” account was once used to keep users informed about any issues but has not posted since 2014.
The company has been hit by a small number of significant outages in recent years.
As the three apps have become more closely intertwined, those outages have become larger, since a problem on one of the platforms usually means that all three go down.
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