It’s not just you: WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are not working [Actualizado]

Update (12/12/2024 – 02:02 CET). A few hours later Meta managed solve problems This caused WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook to go offline or work intermittently. The company has not yet said what led to the disruption in its services.

Update (12/11/2024 – 19:56 Central European Time). Target shared a message via X (Twitter) about problems in their applications. Although it does not provide details about what led to the shutdown of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, yes, he admitted mistakes. “We are aware that a technical issue is impacting the ability of some users to access our applications. We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” the main account said.

The official profile dedicated to WhatsApp published a separate update indicating that the service for some users this becomes the norm. “We are aware of some problems with access to WhatsApp. We are actively working to find a solution and are starting to see most people returning to normal life. We hope that everything will return to normal soon,” they wrote.

Instagram also says it is working to ensure the public can return to the platform as soon as possible.

Original article

If you’re having trouble with meta apps, you’re not alone. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Threads do not work in many countries around the world or work intermittently.according to numerous comments from users who, as usual, took to X (Twitter) to report the situation.

IN Downdetector Reports of problems with the above-mentioned platforms have increased sharply. Based on the charts, the incidents began a few minutes before 19:00 Spanish time (15:00 in Argentina and 12:00 in Mexico).

While a significant number of people are complaining about WhatsApp not working, in the tests we conducted at the time of writing this article, we saw that the messaging app was working fine. We don’t know if this incident affects some users more than others.

In the case of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, their work is quite more controversial. Web versions of social networks sometimes load, sometimes don’t, or display incomplete sections. For their part, mobile apps show posts created over several hours or even days.

Despite problems reported on WhatsApp and other meta-services, Mark Zuckerberg’s company haven’t spoken publicly yet about what could have caused them to fall or malfunction. We will continue to wait for news and will update it as soon as possible.

There is still no news about why WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram fell

According to DowndetectorWhatsApp outage reports peaked at over 15,000 in Mexico at 12:00 pm local time. Meanwhile in Argentina, more than 4,000 reports were received at 14:58 local time. In Spain, two peaks can be seen, one of over 5,100 messages at 19:02 and the other above 6,700 at 19:32 local time on both occasions.

The media loves Edge indicate that they contacted Meta to find out what could have caused the incidentsbut so far there has been no response from them. Currently, the Menlo Park firm’s business services status website states that there are widespread outages to certain features such as the Facebook Ad Manager and WhatsApp Business API.

This isn’t the first problem with Mark Zuckerberg’s platforms in 2024. In early March, Facebook and Instagram experienced issues that caused the two social networks to go down for several hours, which also impacted Threads. However, WhatsApp didn’t turn off that time.