After the two-hour-long outage affected its social media applications, Meta said the issue had been “fixed” with all apps up and running again by Saturday evening.
The outage affected thousands of users worldwide, with around 20,000 complaining of difficulty accessing Facebook and Instagram and using Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp.
Even in Pakistan, the platforms were not functioning properly until around 3:00 am around midnight.
Downdetector.com, an outage tracking website, recorded that applications crashed within an hour, with 49% of users struggling to send messages on WhatsApp, 32% unable to send voice notes, while The application was not working at all for 19. %
Meanwhile, 42% of Instagram users had trouble using the app, 35% couldn’t log in, while 23% couldn’t load their website. At least 46% of Facebook users could not log into the app, 34% could not access its website and 20% experienced server connection issues.
As of 22:30 GMT, reports of outages had dropped to less than 500, according to Down Detector, according to JEE News.
Around 1:45 a.m., Meta took to Twitter and wrote: “We know some of you are experiencing issues with our apps today. We’re working to get things back to normal as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.”
We know some of you might be experiencing issues with our apps today.
— Meta (@Meta) June 16, 2023
We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. 🙏
At 4:26 a.m., he announced that the problem had been resolved.
“Fixed! The issue is resolved and things will be back to normal on our apps. Thanks again for your patience,” Meta tweeted.
Fixed! The issue has been resolved and things should be working normally again across our apps. Thanks again for your patience.
— Meta (@Meta) June 16, 2023
However, Meta did not give any reason behind the closure.
Downdetector detects outages on its platform by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors. The outage may affect a large number of customers.
Issues with Meta’s Ads Manager, which allows brands to buy and create Facebook ads, were also fixed, the company said.
