In the early hours of Saturday, Meta’s social media platforms experienced a two-hour outage. The disruption affected thousands of users globally, with complaints peaking at nearly 20,000 regarding issues with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Pakistan experienced the outage from midnight until 3:00 am, aligning with outage tracking website Downdetector.com’s reported timeframe.
Meta stated in a statement on Twitter, 49% of users experienced messaging issues on WhatsApp, 32% could not send voice notes, and 19% found the app entirely non-functional.
On Instagram, 42% of users encountered problems using the app, 35% had difficulty logging in, and 23% couldn’t load the website. Facebook saw 46% of users unable to log into the app, 34% unable to access the website, and 20% experiencing server connection issues.
By 22:30 GMT, outage reports reduced to less than 500, according to Reuters citing Downdetector.
At 1:45 am, Meta acknowledged the issue on Twitter, assuring users they were working to resolve it. By 4:26 am, the company announced the issue had been fixed, thanking users for their patience. Meta did not provide any explanation for the outage.
Meta’s Ads Manager issues were also resolved, according to the company. Downdetector compiles outage information from various sources, including user-reported errors on its platform, indicating the outage may have affected even more users
