WhatsApp, Instagram Global Outage: Services Restored After Major Server Downtime

WhatsApp and Instagram faced a major outage on Wednesday night. The services of Meta-owned social media platforms were down for hours. Users were unable to use WhatsApp and Instagram for text, audio, and voice calls. More than 30,000 users in India reported problems with WhatsApp.

WhatsApp, Instagram Global Outage: The services of Meta-owned prominent social media platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram, have been restored hours after the sites went down for thousands of users across the world on Wednesday night. When the major social media platforms were facing the outage, users trying to log in to the browser versions or mobile apps encountered an error message. They were unable to use audio, text, or video calls.

More than 17,000 users reported with the messaging platform, Reuters reported citing Downdetector. As per Reuters, over 3,000 Indian users and more than 67,000 in the United Kingdom 95,000 in Brazil faced problems with WhatsApp. Over 3,200 people also faced problems with Instagram in America as per Downdetector.

“We know some people are experiencing issues right now, we’re working on getting things back to 100% for everyone as quickly as possible,” WhatsApp said on X.
In March this year, Facebook, Instagram and Threads users complained that they could not use social media platforms.