MessageBird incident
Intermittent issues installing WhatsApp channels
MessageBird experienced a major incident on November 24, 2025 affecting Channels - Europe and Channels - US (West) and 1 more component, lasting 1d 23h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Nov 24, 2025, 11:47 AM UTC
We are investigating issues preventing some customers from installing WhatsApp channels.
- identified Nov 24, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC
We have confirmed that impact is scoped to pre-verified numbers only. The issue has been escalated to Meta for further investigations.
- identified Nov 24, 2025, 05:43 PM UTC
Meta's engineering team has been engaged for investigations.
- identified Nov 25, 2025, 09:30 AM UTC
We are continuing investigations alongside Meta engineering teams.
- identified Nov 26, 2025, 09:25 AM UTC
We are continuing investigations.
- identified Nov 26, 2025, 10:18 AM UTC
Meta identified some issues regarding sign-up flows on their end and have provided a temporary workaround; we are in the process of confirming and deploying it.
- resolved Nov 26, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC
We have deployed the proposed workaround and full service functionality has been restored.