While you were asleep, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a massive worldwive outage. The outage happened around 11 pm on Wednesday. As of now, the last update on the outage from Meta was that the issue has been fixed 99 per cent, and that the company’s engineers are just doing some final checks. There has been no other update on the issue, or its cause, yet. All Meta says is that it was a “technical issue”.
Meta said Wednesday that it is close to resolving a technical issue that is causing a widespread outage of its apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” Meta Newsroom said on X Wednesday afternoon.
The outage lasted for more than three hours. By around 5:30 pm EST, Meta posted that it was “99% of the way there” to fully solving the issue.
On outage tracking site Downdetector, where users can report issues, Instagram had logged almost 70,000 reports by mid-afternoon Wednesday. Facebook had up to 105,000 outage reports, Facebook Messenger roughly 14,000 and messaging app WhatsApp about 12,500. Threads, the X competitor, also had an uptick in outage reports. Since Downdetector is self-reported, it likely does not reflect the extent of the issues.
