Meta says '99% of the way there' restoring Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

Hours after the Meta apps including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp went down worldwide, US tech giant Meta says it is "99% of the way there" while resolving the issue of the widespread social media blackout.

Taking to the microblogging website X, formerly Twitter, the company confirmed significant progress, saying, "Thanks for bearing with us! We're 99% of the way there - just doing some last checks."

"We apologize to those who've been affected by the outage."

In Pakistan, Meta apps including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads reportedly went down for thousands of users late Wednesday. 

“We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can,” Meta had said in a brief statement on Facebook.

"We’re aware of some issues accessing WhatsApp. We’re actively working on a solution and starting to see a return to normal for most people. We expect things to be back to normal shortly," said the messaging app on X.

Downdetector.com — which tracks real-time overview of issues and outages of websites and social platforms — showed that nearly 1,000 users in Pakistan reported outage at around 11pm.

Users also complained about having issues with WhatsApp with 2,259 being registered by Downdetector since 10:52pm. Both social media apps are operated by Meta.

Instagram, also owned by Meta, saw numerous reported disruptions around the same time frame today. According to the Downdetector website, there were more than 1,200 outage reports since 10:52pm.

 

Some Facebook and Instagram users posted on rival platform X that they were encountering an error that said "something went wrong" and that Meta was working to get it fixed.

Hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users were impacted globally for more than two hours early this year by an outage that was caused by a technical issue.

The platforms faced another outage in October this year when services were largely restored within an hour.