Instagram, WhatsApp, and FacebookMessengger have gone down for users across the world.
The three apps – all of which are part of the Facebook company, and share common technology – stopped working on Friday afternoon.
Users saw error alerts when they opened the app and were unable to 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. Instagram and WhatsApp do not have their own devoted server status pages, though their official Twitter accounts have occasionally posted about major outages.
The company has been hit by a small number of significant outages in recent years. As the three apps have become more closely intertwined, those outages have become larger, since a problem on one of the platforms usually means that all three go down.
