Meta is currently experiencing a major outage across all its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and WhatsApp. As noted by Downdetector.com, there has been a sharp increase in reported outages from users of these various services. Here’s what we know so far.
Update 5 p.m. Eastern: Over four hours into the outage, Meta has restored service for some users but many continue to experience issues and there has been no new update yet.
Outage affects all major Meta services with widespread impact
The outages appear to have started shortly before 1pm Eastern and are being experienced by a significant number of users.
Affected services include:
- Threads
- Facebook Messenger
At this time it’s unclear how broad the global reach of the outages is, but users from various parts of the world have confirmed Meta’s services being down or encountering issues.
Meta shared an update via a statement on X at 1:48pm Eastern, about one hour after the outage began.
Here’s the official word:
We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.
Social platforms range from being completely down to being slow or error-filled
Users who try to load these services are encountering a variety of issues, both on the web and in their respective apps.
Problems being encountered vary from user to user. These include:
- not being able to use the service’s app or website at all
- not being able to post content on the service
- seeing errors like all Facebook posts showing zero comments
- and/or loading the service but finding it extremely slow and laggy
It is extremely rare for outages to cause so many major services to go down at once.
However, since Meta owns and operates some of the most popular social platforms in the world, any time its services experience an outage, the impact tends to be widespread.