Meta’s WhatsApp back up after global outage

Meta’s WhatsApp back up after global outage

Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp was again up on Wednesday after an hours-long outage on the smartphone messaging app disrupted companies for hundreds of individuals globally.

WhatsApp stated in a publish on the social media platform X that the problems had been resolved.

At its peak, the outage impacted greater than 24,000 WhatsApp customers within the United States, whereas Instagram customers additionally reported over 5,000 outages, Downdetector knowledge confirmed.

Around 1,000 folks have been nonetheless dealing with points with Instagram within the United States, per Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating standing reviews from a variety of sources together with user-submitted errors on its platform.

The WhatsApp outage had impacted hundreds of customers in India, the United Kingdom and Brazil, per Downdetector knowledge.

Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

Last month, lots of of hundreds of customers of the social media firm’s Facebook and Instagram have been impacted globally for greater than two hours following an outage that was brought on by a technical challenge.

Meta has about 3.19 billion each day lively customers throughout its household of apps, which additionally consists of Threads. — Reuters

Source: www.gmanetwork.com