WhatsApp and Instagram were hit on March 19 at 11 pm in India as users took to social media platforms to complain about the services being down.

Downdetector, which provides a real-time overview of issues and outages with all kinds of social media platforms said in a tweet that Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were facing technical issues.

In India, the problem started at approximately 11 pm and there was not update about the outage from Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

In February end, people across the UK were experiencing similar issues as they were unable to connect to the social media platforms owned by Facebook.

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