Instagram Down: Social media giant Facebook, and its two platforms WhatsApp and Instagram were down for scores of users across the world on October 4.
According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, thousands of users have confirmed that they were unable to access services of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook from 15:45 hours (GMT).
By the time this report was published, Downdetector.com showed 13,874 users reporting WhatsApp outage, 13,855 reported Instagram outage, 3,703 confirming inaccessibility to Facebook and 82 users were unable to use Facebook messenger.
While Instagram and WhatsApp users were simply unable to refresh their applications for the latest content, those visiting Facebook.com saw an error message which stated that the site cannot be reached.
On Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, users were unable to receive fresh messages, or check the status of their sent messages.
“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” a message on the Facebook website said.
WhatsApp acknowledged the outage on Twitter:
Facebook has more than 410 million users in India, and its WhatsApp messenger counts the country as its biggest market with over 530 million users. Instagram has over 210 million users in India.
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CREDITS: NDTV
