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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook suffered an outage in Nigeria and worldwide on Friday night.
A lot of users were unable to send or receive messages. Some users also reported that they failed to even log in to WhatsApp Web.
Social media users particularly those using WhatsApp couldn’t send or receive messages on the the platform for more than an hour.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that apart from WhatsApp, both Facebook and Instagram were also not working for many users. According to popular downtime reporting service, more than 28,500 people reported issues with Instagram and over 34,127 users were witnessing problems with WhatsApp.
The cited source suggests that over 49 percent of WhatsApp users were facing connection issue, 48 percent people were unable to send or receive messages on the platform and 2 percent were not able to log in.
Downdetector showed that around 57 percent Facebook users reported about total blackout and 29 percent were not even able to access the social media app. Around 66 percent of Instagram users were not able to News Feed as well as its official website.
In case you are not aware, Downdetector is a site that tracks outages by collating status reports from users.
TNG reports that the three social media platforms is no up and running.