Instagram, WhatsApp services restored after brief downtime

New Delhi: The services of social media sites WhatsApp and Instagram were down on Friday night. The services have now been restored.

Earlier, many users, including those in India, were unable to access both WhatsApp and Instagram.

According to DownDetector, a site that tracks outages, the technical glitch took place after 11 pm (IST).

Several users took to microblogging site Twitter and wrote about their problems in accessing WhatsApp and Instagram