Problems for Mark Zuckerberg to close the year. All apps and services from Internet giant Meta have suddenly stopped working or are suffering from serious problems functioning as usual. The problem occurs after several major updates to these services. A drop that was recognized by the company itself through its social profiles.
“We are aware of some issues accessing WhatsApp. We are actively working to find a solution and we are starting to see that most people are returning to normal. We hope everything will return to normal shortly,” they said. explained from WhatsApp. Likewise, on Instagram they commented: “We are aware that there is a technical issue that is affecting some people's ability to access Instagram. “We are working to get everything back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
A message shared by the applications' parent company, Meta, which explains from its account that “we are aware that a technical problem is affecting the ability of some users to access our applications. We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible” . possible.” possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.” Of course, in neither case did he want to explain to which caused this global problem.
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Early users noticed the first symptoms in certain apps like WhatsApp around 6:50 p.m. Spanish Peninsula Timeand it didn't take long for them to expand to all services. By 7:15 p.m., it was already clear that there was a serious problem on the platform, as other apps like Instagram were no longer working properly.
And WhatsApp, both the mobile app and the web version you have difficulty sending messages; When the user enters the content and clicks the send button, the clock icon appears, indicating that the message has not yet been processed and has not been received by the chat or chat participants. band. However, some users have managed to receive messages, although it takes much longer than usual, around a minute or more.
Other apps aren't so lucky. Instagram, for example, completely stopped working and unable to load new messages; Other social functions like Reels or direct messages are also affected. Likewise, the messaging application Messenger and the social network Facebook, as well as the alternative to X, Threads, suffer from similar irregularities.
According to Downdetector, this is a global issue for the Meta platform; All applications show an identical peak in incidents, which shows that they have decreased at the same time and suffer from the same problems in the service offering. The decision is not limited to Europe, but users from other countries such as the United States are also filing complaints on services such as X (former Twitter).
