WhatsApp, Instagram Restored After Facing Global Outage

People tweeted that one of the world’s most popular instant messaging apps, WhatsApp, had not been working for over half-an-hour

Facebook-owned apps Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram were down for over half-an-hour tonight globally.
The outage was first reported by users on Twitter around 11 pm. People tweeted that one of the world’s most popular instant messaging apps had not been working for some time. Some Instagram and Facebook Messenger users also reported that the apps had been down.

No messages were getting delivered on WhatsApp and Messenger, users tweeted, while no content could be loaded on the photo- and video-sharing app Instagram.

The outage tracking website downdetector.com reported that the apps were not working globally for over 30 minutes.