Here's everything you need to know about the social media outage. Messenger and Instagram, which are owned by Facebook, were also affected, as well as Workplace and other associated Facebook apps.Įarlier on Monday, Facebook finally revealed the cause of a global outage. Tens of thousands of WhatsApp users reported issues using the global instant messaging service earlier on Monday, while Mark Zuckerberg's social giant Facebook also went down. "What happened to WhatsApp?" tweeted PPP Senator Sherry Rehman.Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger were offline after crashing for seven hours on Monday.
As the three platforms have become more closely intertwined, the outages have become larger, since an issue on one of the apps usually means that all three go down, according to The Independent.Ī number of Pakistani politicians and celebrities reported facing problems with WhatsApp on Twitter. Instagram also came back after about an hour.ĭowndetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.įacebook platforms have been hit by a few significant outages in recent years. However, shortly after 1800 GMT, several WhatsApp users said on social media that they were able to again send messages on the app. The major outage was reported at around 1730 GMT, according to Downdetector. Outage tracking website showed there were nearly one million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram, while nearly 20,000 users posted about problems with WhatsApp on the website. Users reported seeing error alerts when they opened the apps - which share common technology under Facebook - and were unable to send or receive messages.
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