Several of Meta’s platforms and services suffered a massive global outage, particularly in the US and parts of Europe. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp were down, as reported by Downdetector.
Apps like Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp saw a massive outage during which the platform saw its services being disrupted, mainly in North America, certain portions of South America, and some parts of Europe according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 18,000 Instagram users reported issues, just from the US, in accessing the app and about 13,000 incidents were reported for the Facebook app, according to Downdetector.com. Outage reports also spiked for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, Downdetector.com data showed.
The services have been restored in most afflicted areas. However, certain regions are still reporting slow or buggy services, as per Downdetector.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Outages of Big Tech platforms are not uncommon as several companies ranging from Alphabet’s Google to Microsoft have seen service disruptions.
Microsoft was hit with a networking outage earlier on Wednesday that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, affecting millions of users globally.
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