WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, 3 of 4 Top Social Media Platforms, Not Working Worldwide

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Social media platforms, WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram have experienced reports of worldwide outages on Friday.

According to DownDetector.com, as of 1:26 p.m. EDT, there have been 2,035 reported outages on Facebook and 5,550 reported outages on Facebook Messenger. As of 1:29 p.m. EDT, there were 125,613 reported outages on Instagram.

Similarly, DownDetector showed at least 26,066 reported outages for WhatsApp, the mobile messaging platform, as of 1:31 p.m. EDT.

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All of the social media platforms that experienced worldwide outages on Friday are part of the Facebook company and use similar technology.

A number of users of the social media platforms reported the outages on Twitter.

Newsweek reached out to Facebook and WhatsApp for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated when more information becomes available.