Massive disruption: Users report problems with WhatsApp and Co.

Massive disruption: Users report problems with WhatsApp and Co.

On Wednesday evening there was a massive outage of the popular meta services WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. Since around 4:30 p.m., thousands of users worldwide have reported disruptions as messages could not be sent or received. On fault portals and social media such as X, formerly Twitter, reports are increasing under the hashtags #whatsappdown, #instagramdown and #facebookdown. According to information from 5min.at The problems reached a global scale within a very short space of time.

Meta confirmed the technical issue and commented on X that they were working on a quick solution. Shortly before 8 p.m. there was an initial response in which the company thanked users for their understanding. According to a statement from Meta, they were 99 percent busy fixing the problem, and from around 9 p.m. the glitches in the functionality of the applications began to subside. However, some users remained affected and continued to express ongoing difficulties on social media, such as ruhrnachrichten.de reported.

It currently remains unclear what exactly was the cause of this widespread outage and how many users were specifically affected by it. Meta has not yet commented on the specific causes, but apologized to users for the inconvenience caused by the outage. While some services were back to normal around 9 p.m., many continued to report difficulties, indicating an issue that has not yet been fully resolved.