Social networks upside down. Meta’s children, namely Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, suffered a general outage on Wednesday, December 12, causing panic among users.
The issue was resolved hours later after a massive global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday.
“Thank you for your patience!” We’re 99% of the way there – just doing some final checks. We apologize to those who were affected by the outage,” said Meta, owner of the applications, on X.
Indeed, more than 22,000 people reported problems with Facebook as of Wednesday evening and more than 18,000 had trouble using WhatsApp, according to outage tracking site Downdetector.
The outages began around 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to Downdetector. Its figures are based on outage reports and the actual number of affected users can vary widely.
Shortly after users reported issues, Meta said it was aware of a “technical issue” that was “affecting some users’ ability to access our applications” and said it was working to resolve the issues. as soon as possible.
Various issues have been reported, including not being able to use apps at all or feeds not refreshing for some users.
Meta platforms are among the most popular in the world. Facebook has more than three billion active monthly users.
The biggest outage Meta has experienced occurred in 2021, when founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the disruption caused. On this occasion, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram services were interrupted for almost six hours.
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