WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and Facebook apps experienced a significant outage Friday afternoon.
According to DownDetector, users began experiencing issues with Facebook’s services around 1:30 PM. Facebook didn’t elaborate as to the cause, but WhatsApp’s Twitter account indicated the issue had been resolved, at least for the WhatApp service.
https://twitter.com/wa_status/status/409505131760087041?s=20
There has been no official statement from Facebook, although it can be assumed the issues have been resolved for its service as well.