Three of the popular apps, which have millions of users worldwide, are currently out of service for thousands

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are all down as tens of thousands report issues worldwide.

Instagram outages skyrocketed to more than 2,500 as of 7pm this evening. Data for WhatsApp showed as many as 60,000 users affected at around the same time. Facebook was hit by far fewer reports at around 1,522.