Thousands of users were unable to access Facebook Inc’s platforms on Friday, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.

Going to Twitter to see if there are tweets about whatsapp being down pic.twitter.com/alVIIlmEGZ

— I-Am-Wanjo (@DashingWanjo) March 19, 2021

Me when #Whatsappdown no messages in family whatsapp group pic.twitter.com/X7RnrWUn2I

— kishan pitroda (@kp_877) March 19, 2021

The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users