WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram restored in Pakistan shortly after outage

Meta-owned WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram were restored in several countries including Pakistan shortly after a brief outage.

Outage detection website DownDetector confirmed that WhatsApp was not working for thousands of users after many complained they were unable to use these social media platforms.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

The outage comes just two days after Instagram was down for users across the globe and was restored hours after. The social platform said it fixed the "bug" that was causing trouble to users.

Before that, Meta Platforms' social media platforms were down last Friday as well. Later, the company said it had fixed the issue that was preventing users from accessing the platforms.

"Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble accessing our products," a Meta spokesperson said.

According to Downdetector, thousands ofusers across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger had reported issues with accessing the apps, sending messages and logging into their accounts.