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Users Of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger Report Outages

/ CBS San Francisco

and SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Users of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were reporting outages to the services Friday morning.

The website Down Detector shows a spike in outage reports on all three platforms beginning shortly after 10 a.m. PT., the majority being on Instagram.

More than 100,000 users reported outages on Instagram as of 10:40 a.m., while 24,000 users of WhatsApp, and 5,000 Facebook Messenger users reported outages.

The Instagram social media network and WhatApp messaging and voiceover IP service are both owned by Facebook. There was no immediate information on the outages on the platforms' respective Twitter accounts.

 

First published on March 19, 2021 / 10:53 AM PDT

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