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Meta's social media and messaging apps suffered a widespread outage on Wednesday, affecting Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads. By late afternoon, the apps were almost functioning normally again.
“Thank you for supporting us! We are 99% complete – just doing final checks.” Yuan has been released X 2:26 pm PT/5:56 pm ET. “We apologize to those affected by the outage.”
Instagram outage reporting According to DownDetector, the spike began around 10 a.m. Pacific Time, with the same time period Facebook, facebook messenger, WhatsApp and Number of execution threads. (Disclosure: DownDetector and CNET are owned by the same parent company, Ziff Davis.)
Instagram displays an error message on the web version, and the mobile app appears with a spinning wheel when users try to refresh the feed. Although the story appears to be working properly, the “Following” tab also displays a “Unable to load activity” message. Within a few hours, reports started to drop, although the page was still loading slowly and was only loading posts from a few hours ago.
“We are aware that technical issues are impacting some users' ability to access our apps,” Meta Published on X 10:48 a.m. Pacific time. “We are working hard to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience caused.”
Cisco Thousand Eyes attributed to power failure to “Internal server errors and timeouts, which may indicate issues with Meta's backend services.”
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what caused the outage.
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