WhatsApp and Instagram were down last night. Users worldwide, including in India, reported issues accessing them. The outage began at 11:45 PM IST with a spike noticed on DownDetector. Here is everything you need to know about the global outage affecting both platforms.
WhatsApp And Instagram Down: Services Restored After Disruption
According to the website Down Detector, most users started facing issues with WhatsApp around 11:33 PM IST last night. This issue affected both web and mobile clients as users saw an error message stating the service was currently unavailable.
The website reveals more than 20,000 users in India, 12,000 in the US, 46,000 in the UK, and 42,000 in Brazil reported the WhatsApp issue. Furthermore, the 3,347 users faced an Instagram down issue in India.
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This led WhatsApp to issue a statement on X (Formerly Twitter), “We know some people are experiencing issues right now, we’re working on getting things back to 100% for everyone as quickly as possible”
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A few hours later, WhatsApp posted another message on X, “And we ‘re back. Happy Chatting!” to report that the issue had been resolved.
It was a similar story for Instagram users, who were unable to refresh their feeds, watch reels, or check new stories. Interestingly, this is Meta’s second outage this year.
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Threads, Instagram, and Facebook went down for two hours in March, affecting thousands of users. The technical issue caused users to automatically log out on these platforms, and those with two-factor authentication enabled reported errors receiving OTPs.
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