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WhatsApp Outage

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Users of WhatsApp, Instagram face global outage for more than 30 minutes

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Mar 20, 2021, at 05:11 am

New Delhi/IBNS: WhatsApp and Instagram users globally have reported outages to the services on Friday.

No messages were getting delivered on WhatsApp, several users tweeted, adding that no video or photos could be loaded on the Instagram app too.

Just wondering, why is WhatsApp down ..
— Arav Chowdharry (@Aravchowdharry) March 19, 2021

What's up yar ?
— Pritam Singh (@iampritampyaare) March 19, 2021

The official account of WhatsApp on Twitter has not responded anything on the issue yet.

Both the apps are owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Inc.

In fact as per outage tracking website downdetector.com, all three Facebook-owned apps including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram had stopped working globally for more that 30 minutes.

However, all the apps' services have been restored finally after faceing outage for 48 minutes. Netizens on Twitter used funny posts to share the news of the apps working again.

After 48 minute outage, #Whatsapp is working now https://t.co/iTUDjG5ywc
— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) March 19, 2021

WhatsApp restored.
WhatsApp headquarters right now:#WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/NSrVUX7yjw
— ༄ℕ𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕝࿐✿ (@TheNabeelAsif) March 19, 2021

More than 1 Million tweets in just less than half an hour. #WhatsApp 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ChEpoN7l67
— RofI Armaan 3.0 (@armaanrahman48) March 19, 2021

#WhatsApp #Instagram #GlobalOutage

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