WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram servers are down at the moment in a worldwide outage. People have been unable to exchange WhatsApp messages. Instagram and Facebook websites are not opening on web browsers. Instagram page shows the message 5xx server error.
Thousands of users on Twitter and other social media websites are reporting the outage.
The outage is being reported at least since 9:20 pm IST in India on Monday, October 4.
Facebook's WhatsApp and Instagram faced a similar outage earlier this year on March 19 when the messaging and photo-sharing apps faced mass outage in India and other parts of the world.
At that time, users faced issues logging in, sending and receiving messages on the instant messaging and social media platforms. Facebook Inc had said its services were being affected by a number of issues. Nearly a million people across the world had reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram.
Experts are reporting it as a DNS problem. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users are also reporting issues in the UK.
As per Downdetector, the first reported outage of WhatsApp was at 8:39 pm. For Facebook, it mentions the first report as 8:54 pm.
Addressing the reported outages, Facebook has released an initial statement. A Facebook spokesperson said, We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
