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Down Dectector, an analytical website for real-time overview of issues and outages with all kinds of services including social media platforms, has detected that the three apps are facing global outage.
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down
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Facebook, mother company of Instagram and WhatsApp, has not issued an official statement about what happened.
However, at the time of this publication, 18:30GMT, the social media apps appeared to have been restored with some users now being able to access the platforms. See some reaction to the outage below.