🚨 Meta's Apps Face Second Major Outage: WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Affected  📱

🔄 Meta's suite of apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and possibly Instagram, are encountering yet another round of outages and intermittent issues—marking the second incident in just over a month. While it's uncommon for services of this scale to go completely offline, Meta's status page reveals disruptions to critical business services such as Ads Manager, Messenger Platform, and the WhatsApp Business API.

🔧 WhatsApp has also acknowledged the outage in an update to its X account, stating, "We know some people are experiencing issues right now, we’re working on getting things back to 100% for everyone as quickly as possible," at 2:55 PM ET.

We know some people are experiencing issues right now, we're working on getting things back to 100% for everyone as quickly as possible

— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) April 3, 2024

🔍 Users have reported difficulties accessing Instagram and Messenger, as observed on social media platforms and sites like Downdetector. However, Downdetector serves as a potential indicator of an outage rather than an official confirmation. Press inquiries to Meta regarding the cause of the outages are pending responses.

📉 The primary impact appears to be on WhatsApp, although some users have reported resolution at the time of this writing.

(✅ In our tests, Meta's apps were functional, with messages successfully sent via WhatsApp, suggesting either localized issues or prompt resolution.)

🔔 Neither Messenger, Facebook, nor Instagram have publicly confirmed any issues via their X accounts.

📅 This outage isn't the first for Meta's apps this year. On Super Tuesday in the U.S. (March 5, 2024), Facebook, Instagram, and Threads experienced a significant downtime, with users encountering error messages or being logged out. The outage persisted for several hours before services were restored. Meta's status page during this incident had highlighted issues with products like Ads Manager.

🛠️ Stay tuned for updates as Meta works to resolve the current service disruptions across its platforms.