The popular social media apps stop working for users worldwide
Popular social media apps Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram stopped working for millions of users worldwide on Monday.
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Thousands of users of the apps took to Twitter to complain about the sudden crash. Twitter filled with memes about those turned to the app when the popular communication apps crashed. All the three apps are owned by Facebook.
WhatsApp said on Twitter that it's working to get things back to normal.
"We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!" A tweet by WhatsApp said.
Facebook also posted a similar tweet and apologised for the outage.
"We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience," it said.
Instagram urged its users to bear with them. "Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it."
Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 1545 GMT.
Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message: "Something went wrong. We're working...
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