1000’s of UK social media customers experiencing ongoing Meta blackout


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1000’s of social media customers in elements of the UK are reporting an outage with Meta’s apps.

On Wednesday, the social media large reported {that a} “technical challenge” had left customers in varied areas of Britain unable to entry Fb, Instagram and WhatsApp.

DownDetector, an internet site that screens social media outages says the three cities hit worst by the outage are London, Manchester and Glasgow.

Different main cities hit arduous by the blackout are Cardiff, Nottingham, and Birmingham.

By round 10pm on Wednesday, DownDetector UK stated there had been 23,445 studies of Fb outages, 11,466 Instagram outages and 18,646 on WhatsApp throughout Britain.

The location says customers started reporting issues at round 6pm.

Different elements of the world affected embody Europe, Asia, South America and Australia, based on DownTracker.

On X, a spokesperson for Meta stated: “We’re conscious {that a} technical challenge is impacting some customers’ capacity to entry our apps.

“We’re working to get issues again to regular as rapidly as potential and apologize for any inconvenience.”

To search out out in case your space is affected, go to: downdetector.co.uk/standing/fb/map.


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Ryan McDougall , 2024-12-11 22:27:00

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