WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services restored after global outage

#Whatsappoutage was trending around the world

Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger down in major outage according the the specialised website Downdetector on March 19, 2021. AFP

Facebook Inc has fixed a technical issue that caused a global outage of its services after more than a million people reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram.

The issue had also affected the company's online messaging services Whatsapp and Messenger, with #whatsappoutage trending on Twitter in many countries, including India.

A Facebook representative said the company had resolved the issue, which prevented access to its services.

More than one million people had reported problems with Instagram, while about 20,000 users posted about issues with WhatsApp, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.