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March 08, 2025 • By KWD
A global outage affecting Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at 6:30pm Kuwait Time, causing domain resolution failures. The cause remains unknown, potentially DNS-related or a coordinated cyber attack.
Key Takeaways
- Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp went down simultaneously at 6:30pm Kuwait Time globally.
- The domains instagram.com, facebook.com, and whatsapp.com stopped resolving during the outage.
- Root cause was unclear at time of reporting: either DNS issue or coordinated cyber attack.
- Social media traffic shifted to Twitter as alternative platform during the outage.
- Official WhatsApp and user reports on Twitter confirmed the widespread service disruption.
Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are down since 6:30pm Kuwait Time. The domains instagram.com, facebook.com and whatsapp.com aren't resolving. The cause of the outage is still unknown as this time. It could either be a DNS issue or a coordinated Cyber Attack. Too early to say.
The whole of social media traffic is now driven to Twitter.
https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1445060216161116168
https://twitter.com/sherifbegh/status/1445092642304430091?s=20
https://twitter.com/BasitMohmand331/status/1445097932466884617
Frequently Asked Questions
The outage began at 6:30pm Kuwait Time. All three platforms were affected simultaneously.
The cause was unknown at the time of reporting. It could have been a DNS issue or a coordinated cyber attack.
Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp were all down. The domains instagram.com, facebook.com, and whatsapp.com were not resolving.
Social media traffic shifted to Twitter as users sought an alternative platform to communicate.
The outage was confirmed through official WhatsApp Twitter posts and reports from multiple users on Twitter.
