Since then, many people were tweeting about problems with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. WhatsApp errors started at around 10.30pm and suddenly spiked, and so did other Facebook apps The issue wasn't just limited to the websites either - the apps for these platforms were also not working A similar trend can be seen for all other Facebook services including Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, apart from the main social network itself. Less than an hour later, there were already almost 40,000 reports on the tracker for WhatsApp. According to website outage tracker Downdetector, the problems started to be noticed by users at around 10.30pm IST on Friday, March 19 - as of 11.30pm IST they started to be functional again.

Many users had been posting on Twitter about not being able to log into any of the Facebook services, and Gadgets 360 staff also found that we can't send messages on WhatsApp, or open the other sites for almost an hour. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger - all Facebook services were briefly down around the world.

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