Facebook Inc's platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram were down for thousands of users across the globe on Friday, 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.
And soon after the news of the Facebook Inc's platforms being down spread, a meme-fest began on Twitter and hashtags #whatsappdown #facebookdown started tending.
Downdetector showed there were more than 1.2 million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram, while over 23,000 users posted about issues with WhatsApp on the website.
