Service unavailable! Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram down worldwide
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Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were down for thousands of users worldwide, including Pakistan, on Wednesday night.
Downdetector showed that 2,222 reports were received about WhatsApp from users in Pakistan at 11:04pm, indicating problems with the service.
Internet tracking monitor NetBlocks also confirmed at 11:54pm that Meta platforms were currently experiencing international outages, adding that the incident was not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.
According to a report, “Service unavailable. We’re having trouble connecting to WhatsApp. Please try again in a few minutes,” were the messages the users complained about.
The issue was observed in the United States as well. There were more than 105,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 70,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50pm ET.
WhatsApp was also down for more than 12,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.
Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on rival platform X that they were encountering an error that said “something went wrong” and that Meta was working to get it fixed.
Meta said it was aware that a technical issue was impacting “some users’ ability” to access its apps. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience,” the company said in a post on X.
A similar message from Instagram said on X: “We know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram.
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.”
A message by WhatsApp said on X it was aware of some issues in accessing the platform.
“We’re actively working on a solution and starting to see a return to normal for most people. We expect things to be back to normal shortly.”
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours early this year by a technical issue causing an outage.
The platforms faced another outage in October when services were largely restored within an hour.