Amid the global outage affecting Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, some users also reported issues with another social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp on Tuesday.
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Meta’s status dashboard showed that the application programming interface (API) for WhatsApp Business was also experiencing issues.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, received approximately 200 reports of outages for WhatsApp. The problem started surfacing at around 9:26pm. Users reported problems with sending messages, voice and also with the application.
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What did Meta say?
Meta has acknowledged the widespread issues affecting their platforms and assured users that they are actively working to resolve the problem.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media: “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”
Later in a post, Stone said the issue was resolved.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Stone said.
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