Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp: a giant outage on Meta applications

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp: a giant outage on Meta applications
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp: a giant outage on Meta applications

Connected users, sending messages, connection problems… Thousands of users reported this Wednesday evening a giant outage on the social networks of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, its messaging system Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, on the Downdetector site, which logs real-time issues and outages for all kinds of digital services.

The company confirms a technical problem and says it is working to resolve it: “We are aware that a technical problem is affecting the ability of some users to access our applications. We are working to restore the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize for the inconvenience caused,” the American multinational said on the social network X.

“Problem with Instagram messaging. Messages are sent late or deleted on their own. Notifications do not [s’affichent] not or come late and this problem persists with all my friends”, reports for example an Internet user on Downdetector. Many users also reported their problems on X (formerly Twitter), with the hashtags #facebookdown or #instagramdown.

>> More information to come on Le Parisien…

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