Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram back after hours of outage

WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says, Report informs, citing the BBC.

On its official Twitter page, Whatsapp service thanked the users for patience.

"We’re now back and running at 100%. Thank you to everyone around the world today for your patience while our teams worked diligently to restore WhatsApp. We truly appreciate you and continue to be humbled by how much people and organizations rely on our app every day," the service tweeted.

Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or on smartphone apps.

Downdetector, which tracks outages, said it was the largest failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports around the world.

The services went down at about 16:00 GMT yesterday with users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00.