Whatsapp and Instagram not working across the world; reason yet to be identified

WhatsApp Messenger along with Instagram, a photo and video-sharing social networking service, and Facebook Messenger — all owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, Inc faced a global outage on Friday. Users across the globe were not able to send messages or open the website.

Instagram showed a 5xx Server error when users tried to refresh. Meanwhile, WhatsApp users also reported that the app is down. The official account of both portals is yet to issue a statement on the same.

Twitter, on the other hand, was flooded with memes where hashtags like #WhatsAppDown, #InstagramDown within minutes started trending with over 57,000 tweets from all across the World. Moreover, Signal and Telegram, other popular cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service started trending on Twitter.

√ Aeroplane mode on &off.
√Restarted phone.
√Checked data.
√Went to check on twitter if everything is ok with whatsapp...#whatsappdown #instagramdown#facebookdown pic.twitter.com/6vKpEJC9zP

— Gajinder Singh slathia (@GajinderSlathia)

Every person when Instagram and WhatsApp stops working:#instagramdown 🌚🌝#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/JoHOpIetcR

— Harsh! 🥺 (@harshzon14)

Whatsapp, Facebook, telegram down
Meanwhile twitter headquarters: #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/h1C8GzCqMw

— Eishal (@ThisIsEishal)

Facebook messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram users gather on Twitter to pray, after those platforms stopped working 😂😂😭😭#whatsappdown#instagramdown #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/H6N79yu5mB

— Maiestas Ⓜ️ (@Ebenezer_Peegah)

When Instagram & WhatsApp crashes, the people of Twitter: 🕺🕺#WhatsAppDown #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/3GCb06Xj1R

— 👑 (@UsthadVirat)

Whatsapp, facebook and instagram users arriving at twitter just to check if it's down 😂#whatsappdown 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/A9SexbiIyc

— kp stan⚡ (@kpASMR)

Whats app, Facebook & Instagram not working!
Now is the time when all of us can actually celebrate #InternationalSleepDay 😇#whatsappdown

— Priyanka Shukla (@PriyankaJShukla)