Facebook, WhatsApp down globally including in India

Millions of users worldwide, including in India, were left clueless on Wednesday evening when Facebook and its family of apps including WhatsApp and photo-sharing platform Instagra entered a global outage.

People took to Twitter to share their experiences.”Everyone moves to twitter when instagram, facebook, and whatsapp getdown, including me!” tweeted one Indian user.

   

“Social media breakdown is the only thing that unitesthe world,” said another user.

Users faced specific problems rather than the entire app notworking.

On Facebook, users reported that specific posts or photosdid not appear, but that the page was loading.

Millions of users had problems sending photos, videos andvoice messages on WhatApp in India. Only the text messages were being shared onthe mobile messaging service.

At Instagram, people failed to upload photos in variousparts of the world.Online outage tracker Down Detector loggedseveral complaints from across the world including in India. Facebook said in astatement that confirmed there is a problem with its apps, and it’s”working as quickly as possible” to fix it.

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