Instagram, WhatsApp, MetaBusiness services hit by outage

Instagram and whatsapp Several outages reportedly occurred in the United States and several other countries on Wednesday (April 3).

ET for a period of Wednesday afternoon. down detector Viewing 3,100 outage reports for Instagram and 17,000 users for WhatsApp, Bloomberg report Wednesday.

status page meta platformThe parent company of Instagram and WhatsApp said at the time that there were “significant disruptions” to its advertising transparency tools, according to the report.

Meta did not immediately respond to PYMNTS’ request for comment on this or other media coverage of the platform’s suspension.

WhatsApp addressed issues with social media platform Xhe said Wednesday afternoon. post: “We understand that some of you are experiencing issues at the moment. We are working to get everyone back to 100% as quickly as possible.”

About three hours later, WhatsApp followed up. post: “And I’m back. Have fun chatting with me!”

WhatsApp outage affected thousands of people worldwide and lasted several hours before being restored, Reuters says report Wednesday.

Citing data from Downdetector, the report said that in addition to the US, users reported outages in India, the UK and Brazil.

tech crunch report meta wednesday status page Disruptions to Ads Manager, Messenger Platform, WhatsApp Business API, and other business services were revealed.

Meta’s app suffered an outage a month earlier, on March 5th. Facebook,Instagram, thread The report said it had been down for several hours.

According to the report, at the time, users were seeing an error message that said “something went wrong,” or being logged out and unable to log back in.

The Verge report On Wednesday, users reported problems with the meta platform Facebook and Threads. The issue was resolved later in the day, the report said.

The report said WhatsApp was affected by the outage reported on Wednesday, but not by the outage that affected some other meta-platforms in March. The last time WhatsApp had a major outage was in 2022, when he was offline for two hours.

When Facebook experienced a 22-hour partial power outage In 2019, PYMNTS reported that retailers, service providers, and influencers were among those “likely to have had a tough day.”