

The websites and apps for all three were back up and running for most users between 6pm to 6:30pm.įacebook, which acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, has yet to comment on the disruption.


People took to Twitter to report the outages, with #WhatsAppDown, #InstagramDown and #FacebookDown trending in Pakistan and across the globe.Īccording to traffic-monitoring website DownDetector, Facebook was the first to encounter problems at around 3:28pm, followed by Instagram at 3:33pm and WhatsApp at 3:58pm.ĭownDetector’s live outage map showed that the issues were mainly in Europe and Asia, and parts of America. Social networking services Facebook and Instagram, and messaging service WhatsApp on Sunday experienced issues for users worldwide, including in Pakistan.įacebook and Instagram were both inaccessible in parts of the world for nearly 2.5 hours, with news feeds refusing to refresh and the main domain unavailable, while WhatsApp messages were not being sent or received.
