Here’s what we know about outages impacting metaplatforms
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Here’s what we know about outages impacting metaplatforms

Posted on by Amelia Pressman

Topline

The meta apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experienced problems on Wednesday afternoon as thousands of people reported outages of the apps on DownDetector.

Important facts

Reports of outages increased starting around 12:30 p.m. EST, with more than 100,000 Facebook users reporting their problems on DownDetector by around 1:10 p.m. EST.

By 1:20 p.m., the number of reported outages had fallen to about 46,000.

Tens of thousands of Instagram users also reported problems, while WhatsApp and Threads saw a similar spike.

When trying to access Facebook, some users received the error message “We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”

Forbes has reached out to Meta for comment on the outage.

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Important background

Meta’s outage on Wednesday follows a global outage in March that lasted more than two hours. Meta said the outage was caused by a technical issue, Reuters reported, and affected hundreds of thousands of users. At the height of this outage, there were more than 538,000 reports of problems with Facebook and more than 91,000 problems with Instagram, The New York Times reported.

tangent

Meta’s outage follows at least two other recent technical outages. On November 25, some Microsoft platforms were unavailable for more than a day. Microsoft did not specify which change affected programs, but the outage occurred on the same day as the launch of a new Recall AI tool for Windows Insiders that was intended to take regular snapshots of computer activity. Earlier this week, on November 21, Reddit experienced two outages in 24 hours as more than 76,000 users logged reports of issues with the site and app on DownDetector.

Further reading

ForbesMicrosoft outages: Issues resolved more than 24 hours after Outlook affected TeamsFrom Mary Whitfill RoeloffsForbesUsers report Reddit outage on Thursday morning – second in 24 hoursFrom Conor Murray

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