for the past 45 minutes WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Facebook Messenger users Users saw error alerts when they opened the app and were unable to refresh feed, send or receive messages
Facebook’s official “platform status” page, which tracks problems for developers, indicated that the platform is “healthy” and that there was no known issues.
According to the tracking website DownDetector, more than 38,000 people have reported issues with WhatsApp. As for Instagram and Facebook, over 30,000 and 1,600 reports have been registered so far, respectively.
As of now, the company has not made any official comment on why their servers went down.