WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have completely stopped working for half an hour. After 8:20 p.m., they began to resume normal activity after a power outage that brought down all applications and services associated with Meta, Mark Zuckberg’s internet giant. Thus, the main social networks most used in Europe have fallen throughout the national territory, as well as in a large part of the world, since this Wednesday afternoon. This recovery process is not the same for all users and will happen gradually.
According to users of the Downdetector portal, the service outage began around 7:50 p.m. and prevents users from connecting, chatting, reading messages, updating posts or viewing stories normally on each of the social networks. Likewise, the outage also affects WhatsApp Business or Facebook Messenger.
In the case of WhatsApp, the messaging application does not connect to chats and the application remains in reflection. If you try to use the web version of the service, a message appears directly informing the user of connection problems, indicating that the service is not available and inviting them to try again in a few minutes.
On Instagram, the message is different. A notice appears saying “An error occurred. There was a problem and the page could not be loaded” and some cached stories and posts are available but you cannot view the news and it is also Unable to download content.
On Facebook, for its part, the disconnection is total, and users have reported the impossibility of entering their profile and, as is the case with WhatsApp, the “blackout” is total.
It should be remembered that this is not the first time that all Meta applications go black and the same thing happened almost a month ago. Specifically, on March 5, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook suffered a massive, widespread crash in which they remained inaccessible for hours.
As then, the cause of this massive failure is unknown, and we will have to wait for the service to issue a clarifying note to find out what could have failed on this occasion. In any case, the only remedy left when Meta services goes black is to be patient or switch to other apps like Telegram or its alternatives if you want to stay in touch with family and friends.
