Instagram and WhatsApp are currently experiencing an outage.
At the time of writing, Instagram was showing a 500 error message, indicative of a back-end server error. WhatsApp meanwhile was unable to connect to the server, and messages were not being delivered. It’s not clear if the issue also affects Facebook Messenger, which last year rolled out new functionality to allow cross-platform messaging between Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
Facebook’s developer status page did not show any immediate outages.
We’ve reached out to Facebook, which owns the two units, but did not immediately hear back. We’ll update when we know more.
