By CNBCTV18.com IST (Updated)
WhatsApp and Instagram were hit on March 19 at 11 pm in India as users took to social media platforms to complain about the services being down.
Downdetector, that provides realtime overview of issues and outages with all kinds of social media platforms said in a tweet that Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram were facing technical issues.
User reports indicate Facebook Messenger is having problems since 1:35 PM EDT. https://t.co/hd5tbiWvQV RT if you're also having problems #FacebookMessengerdown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) March 19, 2021
It is not clear what caused the outage, but many users across India and the US, took to Twitter to complain about the service. Services were finally restored by 11.40 pm (IST). In India, the problem started at approximately 11 pm and there was no update about the reason behind the outage from Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram.
However, there were over 100,000 tweets about users not being able to connect to WhatsApp (web and the app), Instagram and Facebook Messenger.
In February end, people across the UK were experiencing similar issues as the were unable to connect to the social media platforms owned my Facebook.
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