The entire range of Facebook services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, are experiencing a global outage.
users around the world, including those in India, cannot access WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. Facebook also seems to have a hook on the desktop page as multiple users report login errors. Some cannot access the website at all. Update
Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram have also independently confirmed that their services are facing an outage at this point in time.
A quick visit to Downdetector, website that reports such outages, confirms that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp indeed are down for users globally.
In India, the outage seems to have begun around 9:00pm IST. Expectedly, users are flocking to micro-blogging website Twitter to report these issues.