Is Fb down? Customers report issues accessing Meta platforms, together with Instagram, Threads.
Customers are reporting issues accessing a lot of Meta’s social media apps, together with Fb, Instagram, Threads and Messenger, in keeping with outage monitoring service Downdetector.
Reviews of outages from cities throughout the U.S. started on Wednesday at about 1 p.m. Japanese Time, in keeping with Downdetector. Fb and Instagram customers stated they’re having issues getting on each its app and web site, whereas Messenger customers stated they’re having points with logging into the service and sending messages.
“We’re conscious {that a} technical situation is impacting some customers’ capability to entry our apps. We’re working to get issues again to regular as shortly as potential, and apologize for any inconvenience,” a Meta spokesperson instructed CBS Information.
Tens of 1000’s of customers of every social media service reported issues to Downdetector, with nearly 90,000 reviews of points with Fb as of 1:30 p.m. Japanese. Some Fb customers stated that whereas they had been capable of entry the positioning, they had been unable to submit or “like” different customers’ posts.
WhatsApp customers additionally reported points with sending messages, in keeping with Downdetector. WhatsApp, a preferred service outdoors the U.S. for making calls to different customers of the service, had reviews of issues from customers in nations together with Argentina and Brazil.
Wednesday’s outage follows widespread points with Meta’s apps in March, when greater than half 1,000,000 customers reported widespread points, reminiscent of getting booted out of the social media platforms and unable to log again in. In that case, Meta blamed an unspecified “technical situation” that prompted issues for customers.
