Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeWhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram went down for thousands of social media users as both sites crashed on Friday afternoon. Both Instagram and WhatsApp are part of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, which is said to have 2.8 billion active users. More than 122,000 people had reported issues accessing Instagram in the past 24 hours, according to Downdetector. While there had been over 23,000 reports for WhatsApp, as well as 3,000 for Facebook. It is the second time in just three weeks that Zuckerberg's apps go down for thousands of people, with Instagram and Facebook Messenger users reporting issues at the end of February.

Source: Daily Mirror March 19, 2021 17:42 UTC