Explained: Why WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook were hit and why you might see more of it | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Why WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook were hit and why you might see more of it | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Nandagopal Rajan |Edited by Explained Desk |New Delhi |Updated: July 4, 2019 4:21:39 pm

Explained: Why WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook were hit and why you might see more of it

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down: With the kind of user bases Facebook’s services have, we are in unchartered waters when it comes to the internet.

With over 2.3 billion users just for Facebook, it is highly unlikely that services are disrupted for all active users across the world. (Bloomberg Photo)

On Wednesday, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services across the world suffered disruptions with people complaining that they were unable to either post or see their feeds or photographs. Twitter too said it had issues with direct messaging, though limited to only some users. For products from the Facebook stable, this was the third major outage in this year.