At around 10:55 PM in India last night, the 3 most popular social media platforms- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp faced an outage and stopped working simultaneously.
As per a report in News18, the cause of the outage is yet to be deciphered, but many users across the world reported having faced issues with their Whatsapp and Instagram apps as they were unable to post or send messages.
And when these modes of communication were not working for several people, they resorted to memes, as usual.
1. People (including me) wondering whether their phones have crashed
Me restarting my phone 100th time in last 5 minutes without knowing that Whatsapp and instagram crashed.
*Le Mark Zuckerberg: #instagramdown #Facebookdown #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/kb5OlhcaAE
— Suresh Pilania (@Suresh_Pilania) March 19, 2021
#whatsappdown
Me who deleted whatsapp and installed it again pic.twitter.com/6ozRi8BPrR— Waweven (@Waweven) March 19, 2021
After Checking Whatsapp & Instagram is Down
Me thinking #MarkZuckerberg blocked my account due to things I have done lol🤣🤣🤣#whatsappdown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/9lZR9d4wBH
— Siva Harsha (@SivaHarsha_1) March 19, 2021
2. Confused souls turning to Twitter to understand what has happened
Whatsapp and instagram down#instagramdown #whatsappdown
Situation of twitter people rn:- pic.twitter.com/WJ7ULYIXkA
— Jenny (@jennylane216) March 19, 2021
People coming on twitter to check whether whatsapp is down #WhatsAppDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/62Jib8J01z
— _murag_e (@_murag_e) March 19, 2021
Me getting on Twitter to see if whatsapp doesn't work anymore #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/xA3LT3oBJo
— Jr Nixon (@JrNixon4) March 19, 2021
Everyone running to twitter to confirm that WhatsApp is down. #WhatsAppDown pic.twitter.com/Afqaw0Sb27
— C A R L O S â“Š (@Dalbertis21) March 19, 2021
All whatsapp and Instagram users coming to twitter to check if their net is working#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/VxcPTeuCL6
— Eeshan Bagchi (@bagchi_eeshan) March 19, 2021
3. Other app users including the official PayTm handle taking a dig at the situation
Your Internet is fine. It's the apps.
Now you know why monopolies are a bad idea.
— Paytm (@Paytm) March 19, 2021
Telegram and Signal to WhatsApp users right now after #WhatsAppDown: pic.twitter.com/EsJownsYsY
— Soham Naskar (@SohamNaskar) March 19, 2021
Telegram owners after seeing WhatsApp and Instagram down#whatsappdown 😂 pic.twitter.com/TLMqBLRJCS
— Iqrar Alee Ameer (@IqrarAlee112) March 19, 2021
As of now, the services have appeared to be restored. Here are the tweets from the official Twitter handles of Whatsapp and Instagram post the disruption:
Thanks for your patience, that was a long 45 minutes but we are back! #WhatsAppDown
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) March 19, 2021
Some people were having issues with their Instagram accounts earlier, but we're back now. The issue's been fixed and we're sorry for the trouble. #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/dd9mJPiqDz
— Instagram (@instagram) March 19, 2021
This isn’t the first time WhatsApp and Instagram faced such issues. Last month, even the National Stock Exchange shut down over a technical glitch.
Did you face any issues with your apps last night? Tell us.