WhatsApp remained closed for about an hour on Friday night. Millions of users across the world and in India found that WhatsApp stopped working around 11 pm. Instagram and Facebook Messenger also suffered a lot at the same time. Around midnight, services including WhatsApp started working online after about 45 minutes.
When WhatsApp was going down, not only the users failed to send any message but the chat app itself was failing to connect to the WhatsApp server. The company has so far remained silent on the mess of the outage in WhatsApp and Instagram. Because of what happened, nothing has been told about it at the moment. However, after the WhatsApp service was restored, WhatsApp tweeted and thanked the users for keeping their presence intact.
Thanks for your patience, that was a long 45 minutes but we are back! #WhatsAppDown
– WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) March 19, 2021
When WhatsApp was down, Signal also tried to cash in on the issue.
Signal registrations are through the roof; welcome everyone! Solidarity to the folks working on the WhatsApp outage. People outside of the tech industry will never understand how weird it sounds when someone says that they are “looking forward to some weekend downtime.
— Signal (@signalapp) March 19, 2021
WhatsApp was down to users globally. Apart from this, the down editor site for Instagram users was also down. Initially, over 11,000 people registered issues with the WhatsApp service on the down editor, while around 12,000 people reported problems with Instagram. After a few minutes, there were over 38,000 people who reported problems with the WhatsApp service on the down editor. On the other hand, Instagram reported problems to about 30,000 people after some time.
On refreshing on Instagram, the message of ‘could not refresh feed’ was coming. At the moment everything is fine. This problem came in the social media app even 3 months ago. On 11 December 2020, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down. After the service of WhatsApp and Instagram was down, their users worldwide were seen giving their feedback on Twitter and Facebook and enjoying it.
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