UAE: WhatsApp, Facebook down? Thousands of users report outage

Meta said it is aware of a technical issue impacting users' ability to access its apps

Published: Wed 11 Dec 2024, 10:25 PM

Updated: Wed 11 Dec 2024, 11:52 PM

By
Web Desk

Thousands of users across the UAE are reporting network issues and outages on social media and messaging application on Wednesday. Many are experiencing difficulties sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp, as well as issues with posts failing to load on Facebook and Instagram.

Some Facebook and Instagram users flooded X with memes about the outage. On the micro-blogging website, users said they were encountering an error that said "something went wrong" and that Meta was working to get it fixed.

Meta said it is aware of a technical issue impacting users' ability to access its apps. Facebook and Instagram posted a statement on X: "We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience."

At around 10.10pm on Wednesday, more than 1,300 users have reported issues with Instagram and Facebook on Downdetector.ae.

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As per Downdetector, over 2,500 users reported issues with WhatsApp in the UAE at 10.10pm. The actual number of affected users may vary as Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.

WhatsApp, Meta's messaging application, was also down for more than 12,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.

There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 28,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50 p.m. ET (9.50pm)

Earlier this year, a technical issue led to an outage that impacted hundreds of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users globally for more than two.

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

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